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

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Wed Sep 05 2012 - 04:57:15 EST


On Wed, 5 Sep 2012, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> > 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
>
> Had already merged v1 (oops.. didn't spot the issue with PER_LINUX being
> 0). Can you send an incremental fixup ?

Hi Benjamin,

actually commit 7256a5d2da56 seems to contain the correct PER_LINUX
handling, so seems like you picked the right one :)

Thanks,

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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