[PATCH v2] powerpc: fix personality handling inppc64_personality()

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Thu Aug 02 2012 - 03:10:06 EST


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 <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
---

changed since v1: fix the bit ops to reflect the fact that PER_LINUX is
actually 0

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..dc1558e 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_LINUX32;
ret = sys_personality(personality);
- if (ret == PER_LINUX32)
- ret = PER_LINUX;
+ if (personality(ret) == PER_LINUX32)
+ ret &= ~PER_LINUX32;
return ret;
}
#endif
--
1.7.3.1

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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