[PATCH 1/4] arm64: expose orig_x0 in the user_pt_regs structure
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Mar 26 18:28:40 GMT 2021
On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 03:50:50PM -0700, Andrei Vagin wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h
> index 758ae984ff97..3c118c5b0893 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/ptrace.h
> @@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ struct user_pt_regs {
> __u64 sp;
> __u64 pc;
> __u64 pstate;
> + __u64 orig_x0;
> };
That's a UAPI change, likely to go wrong. For example, a
ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGSET, pid, REGSET_GPR, data) would write past the end
of an old struct user_pt_regs in the debugger.
--
Catalin
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