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authorSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>2010-02-22 14:51:32 -0800
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2010-02-23 13:45:26 -0800
commitc6a0dd7ec6fb2d4927979ed4dc562fc5c122d826 (patch)
tree415f5e04788eb289820685b33dabcc7949d6196b /include/linux
parent5e6dbc260704ce4d22fc9664f517f0bb6748feaa (diff)
ptrace: Fix ptrace_regset() comments and diagnose errors specifically
Return -EINVAL for the bad size and for unrecognized NT_* type in ptrace_regset() instead of -EIO. Also update the comments for this ptrace interface with more clarifications. Requested-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Requested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <20100222225240.397523600@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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diff --git a/include/linux/ptrace.h b/include/linux/ptrace.h
index dbfa821d5a6e..c5eab89da51e 100644
--- a/include/linux/ptrace.h
+++ b/include/linux/ptrace.h
@@ -30,6 +30,11 @@
/*
* Generic ptrace interface that exports the architecture specific regsets
* using the corresponding NT_* types (which are also used in the core dump).
+ * Please note that the NT_PRSTATUS note type in a core dump contains a full
+ * 'struct elf_prstatus'. But the user_regset for NT_PRSTATUS contains just the
+ * elf_gregset_t that is the pr_reg field of 'struct elf_prstatus'. For all the
+ * other user_regset flavors, the user_regset layout and the ELF core dump note
+ * payload are exactly the same layout.
*
* This interface usage is as follows:
* struct iovec iov = { buf, len};