Re: SYS_personality does not work correctly on mips(el)64

[Aurelien Jarno]

Thiemo Seufer a écrit :
> Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > On mips(el), when doing multiple call to the syscall SYS_personality in 
> > order to get the current personality (using 0xffffffff for the first 
> > argument), on a 64-bit kernel, the second and subsequent syscalls are 
> > failing. That works correctly with a 32-bit kernels and on other 
> > architectures.
>
> That's caused by mis-handling broken sign extensions, see also
> http://bugs.debian.org/380531.

Nice to see there is already a patch! Thanks for your work. Do you know 
when the patch will be merged upstream or in Debian? I really want to 
see this bug fixed, as it breaks dchroot.

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