powerpc: fixing ptrace_get_reg to return an error
authorAlexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:44:23 +0000 (17:44 +0000)
committerMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:03:57 +0000 (13:03 +1000)
commitee4a3916614829914830bc4371358f4d4a63c4d9
treeba1c65ba0a58933b8d9d43fe0374bdbc775338ad
parent3cc33d50f52521760da29ebd9db239741da7f21a
powerpc: fixing ptrace_get_reg to return an error

Currently ptrace_get_reg returns error as a value
what make impossible to tell whether it is a correct value or error code.

The patch adds a parameter which points to the real return data and
returns an error code.

As get_user_msr() never fails and it is used in multiple places so it has not
been changed by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h
arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace32.c
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