Check return value of putreg in PTRACE_SETREGS This means if an illegal value is set for the segment registers there ptrace will error out now with an errno instead of silently ignoring it. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen --- arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c +++ linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -536,8 +536,12 @@ long arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *chi } ret = 0; for (ui = 0; ui < sizeof(struct user_regs_struct); ui += sizeof(long)) { - ret |= __get_user(tmp, (unsigned long __user *) data); - putreg(child, ui, tmp); + ret = __get_user(tmp, (unsigned long __user *) data); + if (ret) + break; + ret = putreg(child, ui, tmp); + if (ret) + break; data += sizeof(long); } break;