From patchwork Wed Aug 1 20:03:42 2012 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Jiri Kosina X-Patchwork-Id: 174585 Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Received: from ozlabs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 791312C0348 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2012 06:04:23 +1000 (EST) Received: from mx2.suse.de (cantor2.suse.de [195.135.220.15]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mx2.suse.de", Issuer "CAcert Class 3 Root" (not verified)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B329C2C0093 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2012 06:03:55 +1000 (EST) Received: from relay1.suse.de (unknown [195.135.220.254]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD5FDA3421; Wed, 1 Aug 2012 22:03:48 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 22:03:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Jiri Kosina To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras Subject: [PATCH] powerpc: fix personality handling in ppc64_personality() Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+patchwork-incoming=ozlabs.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" 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 --- Found accidentally. Untested, I don't have the hardware. arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c | 8 ++++---- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c index f2496f2..4dcc7c6 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 &= ~PER_LINUX | PER_LINUX32; ret = sys_personality(personality); - if (ret == PER_LINUX32) - ret = PER_LINUX; + if (personality(ret) == PER_LINUX32) + ret &= ~PER_LINUX32 | PER_LINUX; return ret; } #endif