[PATCH -mm 07/43] ptrace_request peekdata/pokedata

This makes ptrace_request handle {PEEK,POKE}{TEXT,DATA} directly.
Every arch_ptrace that could call generic_ptrace_peekdata already
has a default case calling ptrace_request, so this keeps things
simpler for the arch code.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
---
 kernel/ptrace.c |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index 2824726..e521042 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -426,6 +426,13 @@ int ptrace_request(struct task_struct *child, long request,
 	int ret = -EIO;
 
 	switch (request) {
+	case PTRACE_PEEKTEXT:
+	case PTRACE_PEEKDATA:
+		return generic_ptrace_peekdata(child, addr, data);
+	case PTRACE_POKETEXT:
+	case PTRACE_POKEDATA:
+		return generic_ptrace_pokedata(child, addr, data);
+
 #ifdef PTRACE_OLDSETOPTIONS
 	case PTRACE_OLDSETOPTIONS:
 #endif
-- 
1.5.3.6

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