Re: [PATCH] alpha: fix PR_GET_UNALIGN flag mask

From: Matt Turner

Date: Sun Oct 25 2026 - 09:53:06 EST


On Sun, Oct 25, 2026 at 08:38:50AM +0100, Magnus Lindholm wrote:
> GET_UNALIGN_CTL clears the flags it needs to read, so PR_GET_UNALIGN
> always returns zero. Keep the UAC bits when translating them to prctl
> flags.
>
> This was uncovered while running the strace test suite on Alpha.
>
> Fixes: 3185bd261882 ("alpha: separate thread-synchronous flags")
> Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@xxxxxxxxx>

This has been broken since v3.7, so please add

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx