From ee436dc46a762f430e37952d375a23d87735f73f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:43:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] Fix IA64 success/failure indication in syscall
 auditing.

Original 2.6.9 patch and explanation from somewhere within HP via
bugzilla...

ia64 stores a success/failure code in r10, and the return value (normal
return, or *positive* errno) in r8. The patch also sets the exit code to
negative errno if it's a failure result for consistency with other
architectures.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
---
 arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c
index eaed14aac6aa5..9887c8787e7ad 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -1656,8 +1656,14 @@ syscall_trace_leave (long arg0, long arg1, long arg2, long arg3,
 		     long arg4, long arg5, long arg6, long arg7,
 		     struct pt_regs regs)
 {
-	if (unlikely(current->audit_context))
-		audit_syscall_exit(current, AUDITSC_RESULT(regs.r10), regs.r8);
+	if (unlikely(current->audit_context)) {
+		int success = AUDITSC_RESULT(regs.r10);
+		long result = regs.r8;
+
+		if (success != AUDITSC_SUCCESS)
+			result = -result;
+		audit_syscall_exit(current, success, result);
+	}
 
 	if (test_thread_flag(TIF_SYSCALL_TRACE)
 	    && (current->ptrace & PT_PTRACED))
-- 
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