Subject: [PATCH v2 21/31] arm64: 32-bit (compat) applications support

From: [email-masked] (Arnd Bergmann)
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 12:39:31 +0000

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