[PATCH v12 26/39] arm64/ptrace: Expose GCS via ptrace and core files

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Mon Sep 2 11:56:32 PDT 2024


On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 12:27:42AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> +static int gcs_get(struct task_struct *target,
> +		   const struct user_regset *regset,
> +		   struct membuf to)
> +{
> +	struct user_gcs user_gcs;
> +
> +	if (target == current)
> +		gcs_preserve_current_state();

What's the use-case where target == current and do we need something
similar for gcs_set()?

-- 
Catalin



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