Directly comparing task_struct->personality against PER_* is not fully correct, as it doesn't take flags potentially stored in top three bytes into account.
Analogically, directly forcefully setting personality to PER_LINUX32 or PER_LINUX discards any flags stored in the top three bytes. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]> --- Found accidentally, untested, I don't have the hardware. arch/parisc/kernel/process.c | 2 +- arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc.c | 8 ++++---- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/process.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/process.c index d4b94b3..2c05a92 100644 --- a/arch/parisc/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/process.c @@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long usp, cregs->ksp = (unsigned long)stack + (pregs->gr[21] & (THREAD_SIZE - 1)); cregs->gr[30] = usp; - if (p->personality == PER_HPUX) { + if (personality(p->personality) == PER_HPUX) { #ifdef CONFIG_HPUX cregs->kpc = (unsigned long) &hpux_child_return; #else diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc.c index c9b9322..f309990 100644 --- a/arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc.c +++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc.c @@ -225,12 +225,12 @@ long parisc_personality(unsigned long personality) long err; if (personality(current->personality) == PER_LINUX32 - && personality == PER_LINUX) - personality = PER_LINUX32; + && personality(personality) == PER_LINUX) + personality &= ~PER_LINUX | PER_LINUX32; err = sys_personality(personality); - if (err == PER_LINUX32) - err = PER_LINUX; + if (personality(err) == PER_LINUX32) + err &= ~PER_LINUX32 | PER_LINUX; return err; } -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
