[PATCH] Fix compat uname machine

From: Andreas Schwab
Date: Thu Apr 15 2010 - 12:28:43 EST


Mask off personality flags when checking for PER_LINUX32.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
On ppc64 you get this error:

$ setarch ppc -R true
setarch: ppc: Unrecognized architecture

because uname still reports ppc64 as the machine.

Andreas.

---
kernel/sys.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 6d1a7e0..7cb426a 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1118,7 +1118,7 @@ DECLARE_RWSEM(uts_sem);

#ifdef COMPAT_UTS_MACHINE
#define override_architecture(name) \
- (current->personality == PER_LINUX32 && \
+ (personality(current->personality) == PER_LINUX32 && \
copy_to_user(name->machine, COMPAT_UTS_MACHINE, \
sizeof(COMPAT_UTS_MACHINE)))
#else
--
1.7.0.4


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