From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: Carsten Langgaard <carstenl@mips.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>,
GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com>,
linux-mips@oss.sgi.com,
linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Add sys/personality (Re: Personality)
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 19:08:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020716190814.A31309@lucon.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D347120.B9CAFF75@mips.com>; from carstenl@mips.com on Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 09:16:48PM +0200
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 09:16:48PM +0200, Carsten Langgaard wrote:
> Thanks.
> Now that we are at it, what should personality return in case it's called with a
> value, which isn't defined in the personality.h file.
> Should it return -EINVAL ?
> I don't think, that is the case at the moment, I believe you can set personality
> to anything.
>
Like this?
H.J.
---
--- kernel/exec_domain.c.per Mon Jun 10 10:05:27 2002
+++ kernel/exec_domain.c Tue Jul 16 19:06:13 2002
@@ -223,7 +223,8 @@ sys_personality(u_long personality)
if (personality != 0xffffffff) {
set_personality(personality);
- if (current->personality != personality)
+ if (personality < current->exec_domain->pers_low
+ || personality > current->exec_domain->pers_high)
return -EINVAL;
}
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2002-07-17 7:14 ` PATCH: Add sys/personality (Re: Personality) Carsten Langgaard
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