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From: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
To: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SYS_personality does not work correctly on mips(el)64
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:52:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061013095206.GA4027@networkno.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <452EB653.7070604@aurel32.net>

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.


Thiemo

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-13  9:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-12 21:40 SYS_personality does not work correctly on mips(el)64 Aurelien Jarno
2006-10-13  9:52 ` Thiemo Seufer [this message]
2006-10-13 10:25   ` Aurelien Jarno
2006-10-15 21:11   ` Aurelien Jarno
2006-10-15 21:27     ` Thiemo Seufer
2006-10-15 21:47       ` Aurelien Jarno

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