From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:26:14 +0100 (BST) Received: from farad.aurel32.net ([82.232.2.251]:63687 "EHLO farad.aurel32.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20038726AbWJMK0K (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:26:10 +0100 Received: from anguille.univ-lyon1.fr ([134.214.4.207]) by farad.aurel32.net with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.50) id 1GYKEu-00073T-Ox; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:26:05 +0200 Message-ID: <452F69AD.8000902@aurel32.net> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:25:49 +0200 From: Aurelien Jarno User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thiemo Seufer CC: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SYS_personality does not work correctly on mips(el)64 References: <452EB653.7070604@aurel32.net> <20061013095206.GA4027@networkno.de> In-Reply-To: <20061013095206.GA4027@networkno.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 12927 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: aurelien@aurel32.net Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips 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. -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' aurel32@debian.org | aurelien@aurel32.net `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net