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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] [S390] do not clobber personality flags in sys_32_personality()
On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 09:11:23AM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> There are multiple errors in how sys_32_personality() handles personality
> flags stored in top three bytes.
>
> - 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
>
> Fix the first one by properly using personality() macro to compare only
> PER_MASK bytes.
> Fix the second one by setting only the bits that should be set, instead of
> overwriting the whole value.

Applied. Thanks!



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