introduction of regset ->get() wrappers, switching ELF coredumps to those

Two new helpers: given a process and regset, dump into a buffer.
regset_get() takes a buffer and size, regset_get_alloc() takes size
and allocates a buffer.

Return value in both cases is the amount of data actually dumped in
case of success or -E...  on error.

In both cases the size is capped by regset->n * regset->size, so
->get() is called with offset 0 and size no more than what regset
expects.

binfmt_elf.c callers of ->get() are switched to using those; the other
caller (copy_regset_to_user()) will need some preparations to switch.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/regset.h b/include/linux/regset.h
index 46d6ae68c455..968a032922d5 100644
--- a/include/linux/regset.h
+++ b/include/linux/regset.h
@@ -353,6 +353,15 @@ static inline int user_regset_copyin_ignore(unsigned int *pos,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+extern int regset_get(struct task_struct *target,
+		      const struct user_regset *regset,
+		      unsigned int size, void *data);
+
+extern int regset_get_alloc(struct task_struct *target,
+			    const struct user_regset *regset,
+			    unsigned int size,
+			    void **data);
+
 /**
  * copy_regset_to_user - fetch a thread's user_regset data into user memory
  * @target:	thread to be examined