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authorAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>2007-07-17 04:03:44 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-17 10:23:03 -0700
commitf284ce7269031947326bac6bb19a977705276222 (patch)
tree8b145d42d4da182fb185dacc53b24ca7a2546114 /arch/i386
parent7664732315c97f48dba9d1e7339ad16fc5a320ac (diff)
PTRACE_POKEDATA consolidation
Identical implementations of PTRACE_POKEDATA go into generic_ptrace_pokedata() function. AFAICS, fix bug on xtensa where successful PTRACE_POKEDATA will nevertheless return EPERM. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/ptrace.c5
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/i386/kernel/ptrace.c
index f4bcf1da662..1c075f58d1f 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -387,10 +387,7 @@ long arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, long request, long addr, long data)
/* when I and D space are separate, this will have to be fixed. */
case PTRACE_POKETEXT: /* write the word at location addr. */
case PTRACE_POKEDATA:
- ret = 0;
- if (access_process_vm(child, addr, &data, sizeof(data), 1) == sizeof(data))
- break;
- ret = -EIO;
+ ret = generic_ptrace_pokedata(child, addr, data);
break;
case PTRACE_POKEUSR: /* write the word at location addr in the USER area */