1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
index 581d427148e7..8a177bd9eab4 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -413,11 +413,7 @@ long arch_ptrace(struct task_struct *child, long request, long addr, long data)
         /* If I and D space are separate, this will have to be fixed. */
         case PTRACE_POKETEXT: /* write the word at location addr. */
         case PTRACE_POKEDATA:
-                ret = 0;
-                if (access_process_vm(child, addr, &data, sizeof(data), 1)
-                                == sizeof(data))
-                        break;
-                ret = -EIO;
+                ret = generic_ptrace_pokedata(child, addr, data);
                 break;
 
         /* write the word at location addr in the USER area */