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[PATCH] x86_64: fix 2.6.18 regression - PTRACE_OLDSETOPTIONS should be accepted

Also PTRACE_OLDSETOPTIONS should be accepted, as done by kernel/ptrace.c
and forced by binary compatibility.  UML/32bit breaks because of this -
since it is wise enough to use PTRACE_OLDSETOPTIONS to be binary compatible
with 2.4 host kernels.

Until 2.6.17 (commit f0f2d6536e3515b5b1b7ae97dc8f176860c8c2ce) we had:

       default:
                return sys_ptrace(request, pid, addr, data);

Instead here we have:
        case PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA:
	case ...:
                return sys_ptrace(request, pid, addr, data);

        default:
                return -EINVAL;

This change was a style change - when a case is added, it must be
explicitly tested this way.  In this case, not enough testing was done.

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 18 years ago
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      arch/x86_64/ia32/ptrace32.c

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arch/x86_64/ia32/ptrace32.c

@@ -243,6 +243,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys32_ptrace(long request, u32 pid, u32 addr, u32 data)
 	case PTRACE_SINGLESTEP:
 	case PTRACE_DETACH:
 	case PTRACE_SYSCALL:
+	case PTRACE_OLDSETOPTIONS:
 	case PTRACE_SETOPTIONS:
 	case PTRACE_SET_THREAD_AREA:
 	case PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA: