Re: [PATCH] alpha: fix PR_GET_UNALIGN flag mask

From: Magnus Lindholm

Date: Sun Oct 25 2026 - 18:01:48 EST


Hi Matt,

On Sun, Oct 25, 2026 at 2:52 PM Matt Turner <mattst88@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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

Will do, thanks for the review.

Magnus