[PATCH] arm64: ptrace: remove addr_limit manipulation
Mark Rutland
mark.rutland at arm.com
Tue Apr 24 05:11:22 PDT 2018
We transiently switch to KERNEL_DS in compat_ptrace_gethbpregs() and
compat_ptrace_sethbpregs(), but in either case this is pointless as we
don't perform any uaccess during this window.
let's rip out the redundant addr_limit manipulation.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
---
arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c | 6 ------
1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
index 71d99af24ef2..7a832ce6552f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -1458,9 +1458,7 @@ static int compat_ptrace_gethbpregs(struct task_struct *tsk, compat_long_t num,
{
int ret;
u32 kdata;
- mm_segment_t old_fs = get_fs();
- set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
/* Watchpoint */
if (num < 0) {
ret = compat_ptrace_hbp_get(NT_ARM_HW_WATCH, tsk, num, &kdata);
@@ -1471,7 +1469,6 @@ static int compat_ptrace_gethbpregs(struct task_struct *tsk, compat_long_t num,
} else {
ret = compat_ptrace_hbp_get(NT_ARM_HW_BREAK, tsk, num, &kdata);
}
- set_fs(old_fs);
if (!ret)
ret = put_user(kdata, data);
@@ -1484,7 +1481,6 @@ static int compat_ptrace_sethbpregs(struct task_struct *tsk, compat_long_t num,
{
int ret;
u32 kdata = 0;
- mm_segment_t old_fs = get_fs();
if (num == 0)
return 0;
@@ -1493,12 +1489,10 @@ static int compat_ptrace_sethbpregs(struct task_struct *tsk, compat_long_t num,
if (ret)
return ret;
- set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
if (num < 0)
ret = compat_ptrace_hbp_set(NT_ARM_HW_WATCH, tsk, num, &kdata);
else
ret = compat_ptrace_hbp_set(NT_ARM_HW_BREAK, tsk, num, &kdata);
- set_fs(old_fs);
return ret;
}
--
2.11.0
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