Subject: [PATCH] arm64: elf.h: Correct comment about READ_IMPLIES_EXEC propagation

From: [email-masked] (Ben Hutchings)
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 03:00:01 +0100

Process personality always propagates across a fork(), but can change
at an execve().

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email-masked]>
---
 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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