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powerpc: PTRACE_PEEKUSR/PTRACE_POKEUSER of FPR registers in little endian builds

FPRs overlap the high 64bits of the first 32 VSX registers. The
ptrace FP read/write code assumes big endian ordering and grabs
the lowest 64 bits.

Fix this by using the TS_FPR macro which does the right thing.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Anton Blanchard 11 years ago
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1 changed files with 4 additions and 4 deletions
  1. 4 4
      arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c

+ 4 - 4
arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c

@@ -1554,8 +1554,8 @@ long arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, long request,
 
 			flush_fp_to_thread(child);
 			if (fpidx < (PT_FPSCR - PT_FPR0))
-				tmp = ((unsigned long *)child->thread.fpr)
-					[fpidx * TS_FPRWIDTH];
+				memcpy(&tmp, &child->thread.TS_FPR(fpidx),
+				       sizeof(long));
 			else
 				tmp = child->thread.fpscr.val;
 		}
@@ -1587,8 +1587,8 @@ long arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, long request,
 
 			flush_fp_to_thread(child);
 			if (fpidx < (PT_FPSCR - PT_FPR0))
-				((unsigned long *)child->thread.fpr)
-					[fpidx * TS_FPRWIDTH] = data;
+				memcpy(&child->thread.TS_FPR(fpidx), &data,
+				       sizeof(long));
 			else
 				child->thread.fpscr.val = data;
 			ret = 0;