From: Jiri Kosina Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 03:18:28 +0000 (+0000) Subject: powerpc: Fix personality handling in ppc64_personality() X-Git-Tag: v4.14-rc1~11383^2~4 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7256a5d2da56f2ea8ad49e8dbe9e2984f0899b42;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-rpi.git powerpc: Fix personality handling in ppc64_personality() Directly comparing current->personality against PER_LINUX32 doesn't work in cases when any of the personality flags stored in the top three bytes are used. Directly forcefully setting personality to PER_LINUX32 or PER_LINUX discards any flags stored in the top three bytes Use personality() macro to compare only PER_MASK bytes and make sure that we are setting only the bits that should be set, instead of overwriting the whole value. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt --- diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c index f2496f2faecc..4e3cc47f26b9 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c @@ -107,11 +107,11 @@ long ppc64_personality(unsigned long personality) long ret; if (personality(current->personality) == PER_LINUX32 - && personality == PER_LINUX) - personality = PER_LINUX32; + && personality(personality) == PER_LINUX) + personality = (personality & ~PER_MASK) | PER_LINUX32; ret = sys_personality(personality); - if (ret == PER_LINUX32) - ret = PER_LINUX; + if (personality(ret) == PER_LINUX32) + ret = (ret & ~PER_MASK) | PER_LINUX; return ret; } #endif