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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/alpha/kernel/ptrace.c
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/alpha/kernel/ptrace.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/alpha/kernel/ptrace.c4
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/ptrace.c
index 0cd060598f9..83a78184226 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -315,9 +315,7 @@ do_sys_ptrace(long request, long pid, 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:
- tmp = data;
- copied = access_process_vm(child, addr, &tmp, sizeof(tmp), 1);
- ret = (copied == sizeof(tmp)) ? 0 : -EIO;
+ ret = generic_ptrace_pokedata(child, addr, data);
break;
case PTRACE_POKEUSR: /* write the specified register */