From: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
To: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
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 12:25:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <452F69AD.8000902@aurel32.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061013095206.GA4027@networkno.de>
Thiemo Seufer a écrit :
> 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.
>
Nice to see there is already a patch! Thanks for your work. Do you know
when the patch will be merged upstream or in Debian? I really want to
see this bug fixed, as it breaks dchroot.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-13 10:26 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
2006-10-13 10:25 ` Aurelien Jarno [this message]
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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