[PATCH] alpha: Fix personality flag propagation across an exec

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2025-01-03T14:02:13Z

It was observed that on alpha, the misc/setarch test of
the util-linux testsuite failed with the following error:

misc: setarch ...
: options ... OK
: uname26 ... OK
: uname26-version ... FAILED (misc/setarch-uname26-version)
: show ... OK
... FAILED (1 from 4 sub-tests)

Running the setarch binary manually confirmed that setting
the kernel version with the help --uname-2.6 flag does not
work and the version remains unchanged.

It turned out that on alpha, the personality flags are not
propagated but overridden during an exec. The same issue was
previously fixed on arm in commit 5e143436d044 ("ARM: 6878/1:
fix personality flag propagation across an exec") and on powerpc
in commit a91a03ee31a5 ("powerpc: Keep 3 high personality bytes
across exec"). This patch fixes the issue on alpha.

With the patch applied, the misc/setarch test succeeds on
alpha as expected:

misc: setarch ...
: options ... OK
: uname26 ... OK
: uname26-version ... OK
: show ... OK
... OK (all 4 sub-tests PASSED)

However, as a side-effect, a warning is printed on the kernel
message buffer which might indicate another unreleated bug:

[ 39.964823] pid=509, couldn't seal address 0, ret=-12.

Signed-off-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
---
arch/alpha/include/asm/elf.h | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/alpha/include/asm/elf.h b/arch/alpha/include/asm/elf.h
index 4d7c46f50382..81f8473bb7c0 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/include/asm/elf.h
+++ b/arch/alpha/include/asm/elf.h
@@ -138,8 +138,8 @@ extern int dump_elf_task(elf_greg_t *dest, struct task_struct *task);
})

#define SET_PERSONALITY(EX) \
- set_personality(((EX).e_flags & EF_ALPHA_32BIT) \
- ? PER_LINUX_32BIT : PER_LINUX)
+ set_personality((((EX).e_flags & EF_ALPHA_32BIT) \
+ ? PER_LINUX_32BIT : PER_LINUX) | (current->personality & (~PER_MASK)))

extern int alpha_l1i_cacheshape;
extern int alpha_l1d_cacheshape;
--
2.39.5