[PATCH v2 21/31] arm64: 32-bit (compat) applications support
Arnd Bergmann
arnd at arndb.de
Thu Aug 16 08:39:31 EDT 2012
On Thursday 16 August 2012, Will Deacon wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 03:34:04PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Tuesday 14 August 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > +asmlinkage int compat_sys_personality(compat_ulong_t personality)
> > > +{
> > > + int ret;
> > > +
> > > + if (personality(current->personality) == PER_LINUX32 &&
> > > + personality == PER_LINUX)
> > > + personality = PER_LINUX32;
> > > + ret = sys_personality(personality);
> > > + if (ret == PER_LINUX32)
> > > + ret = PER_LINUX;
> > > + return ret;
> > > +}
> >
> > Where did you get this from?
> >
> > You should not need compat_sys_personality, just call the native function.
>
> Hmm, but in that case an aarch32 application doing a personality(PER_LINUX)
> syscall will start seeing the wrong uname.
Not the wrong uname, just the default one, which is correct.
Arnd
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