Re: [PATCH] x86 ptrace: fix PTRACE_GETFPXREGS error

From: Roland McGrath
Date: Tue Jul 01 2008 - 05:33:27 EST


> since the original fix is already upstream, i've applied the delta patch
> below. Should we still do this for v2.6.26 or can we defer it to
> v2.6.27? As ptrace is the only user of this facility for now this would
> be an identity transformation AFAICS and the v2.6.26 release is very
> close.

I don't think there's a problem with 2.6.26 either way. I agree that the
user_regset internal API does not matter much before 2.6.27.

My patch alone applies to 2.6.25, which is why I CC'd it to stable.
I think applying that (and not takada's patch) to stable-2.6.25
would be best.


Thanks,
Roland
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