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    arm64: ptrace: change fs when passing kernel pointer to regset code · c1688707
    Will Deacon authored
    Our compat PTRACE_POKEUSR implementation simply passes the user data to
    regset_copy_from_user after some simple range checking. Unfortunately,
    the data in question has already been copied to the kernel stack by this
    point, so the subsequent access_ok check fails and the ptrace request
    returns -EFAULT. This causes problems tracing fork() with older versions
    of strace.
    
    This patch briefly changes the fs to KERNEL_DS, so that the access_ok
    check passes even with a kernel address.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
    c1688707
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