[PATCH] arm64: elf.h: Correct comment about READ_IMPLIES_EXEC propagation
Ben Hutchings
ben at decadent.org.uk
Thu Oct 5 19:00:01 PDT 2017
Process personality always propagates across a fork(), but can change
at an execve().
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben at decadent.org.uk>
---
arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h
index 33be513ef24c..fac1c4de7898 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h
@@ -188,8 +188,8 @@ typedef compat_elf_greg_t compat_elf_gregset_t[COMPAT_ELF_NGREG];
#define compat_start_thread compat_start_thread
/*
- * Unlike the native SET_PERSONALITY macro, the compat version inherits
- * READ_IMPLIES_EXEC across a fork() since this is the behaviour on
+ * Unlike the native SET_PERSONALITY macro, the compat version maintains
+ * READ_IMPLIES_EXEC across an execve() since this is the behaviour on
* arch/arm/.
*/
#define COMPAT_SET_PERSONALITY(ex) \
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