[PATCH] arm64: uid16: fix __kernel_old_{gid,uid}_t definitions

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Mon Jun 2 04:45:39 PDT 2014


On Monday 02 June 2014 11:47:29 Will Deacon wrote:
> Whilst native arm64 applications don't have the 16-bit UID/GID syscalls
> wired up, compat tasks can still access them. The 16-bit wrappers for
> these syscalls use __kernel_old_uid_t and __kernel_old_gid_t, which must
> be 16-bit data types to maintain compatibility with the 16-bit UIDs used
> by compat applications.
> 
> This patch defines 16-bit __kernel_old_{gid,uid}_t types for arm64
> instead of using the 32-bit types provided by asm-generic.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

Is this a theoretical problem, or did you actually encounter binaries
with old uid syscalls?

	Arnd



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