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* SYS_personality does not work correctly on mips(el)64
@ 2006-10-12 21:40 Aurelien Jarno
  2006-10-13  9:52 ` Thiemo Seufer
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Aurelien Jarno @ 2006-10-12 21:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-mips, linux-kernel

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.

Here is a small test below:

#include <sys/personality.h>
#include <stdio.h>

void main()
{
   printf("%i\n", personality(0xFFFFFFFF));
   printf("%i\n", personality(0xFFFFFFFF));
}


Bye,
Aurelien
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* Re: SYS_personality does not work correctly on mips(el)64
  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
  2006-10-15 21:11   ` Aurelien Jarno
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Thiemo Seufer @ 2006-10-13  9:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Aurelien Jarno; +Cc: linux-mips, linux-kernel

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

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* Re: SYS_personality does not work correctly on mips(el)64
  2006-10-13  9:52 ` Thiemo Seufer
@ 2006-10-13 10:25   ` Aurelien Jarno
  2006-10-15 21:11   ` Aurelien Jarno
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Aurelien Jarno @ 2006-10-13 10:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Thiemo Seufer; +Cc: linux-mips, linux-kernel

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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* Re: SYS_personality does not work correctly on mips(el)64
  2006-10-13  9:52 ` Thiemo Seufer
  2006-10-13 10:25   ` Aurelien Jarno
@ 2006-10-15 21:11   ` Aurelien Jarno
  2006-10-15 21:27     ` Thiemo Seufer
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Aurelien Jarno @ 2006-10-15 21:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Thiemo Seufer; +Cc: linux-mips, linux-kernel

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.

I still got the exact same problem with this patch applied.

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   .''`.  Aurelien Jarno	            | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73
  : :' :  Debian developer           | Electrical Engineer
  `. `'   aurel32@debian.org         | aurelien@aurel32.net
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* Re: SYS_personality does not work correctly on mips(el)64
  2006-10-15 21:11   ` Aurelien Jarno
@ 2006-10-15 21:27     ` Thiemo Seufer
  2006-10-15 21:47       ` Aurelien Jarno
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Thiemo Seufer @ 2006-10-15 21:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Aurelien Jarno; +Cc: linux-mips, linux-kernel

Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> 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.
> 
> I still got the exact same problem with this patch applied.

I works for me on a bcm91480b in big endian mode.


Thiemo

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* Re: SYS_personality does not work correctly on mips(el)64
  2006-10-15 21:27     ` Thiemo Seufer
@ 2006-10-15 21:47       ` Aurelien Jarno
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Aurelien Jarno @ 2006-10-15 21:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Thiemo Seufer; +Cc: linux-mips, linux-kernel

Thiemo Seufer a écrit :
> Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>> 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.
>> I still got the exact same problem with this patch applied.
> 
> I works for me on a bcm91480b in big endian mode.

Oops, you are right, I booted the wrong kernel. Sorry!

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   .''`.  Aurelien Jarno	            | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73
  : :' :  Debian developer           | Electrical Engineer
  `. `'   aurel32@debian.org         | aurelien@aurel32.net
    `-    people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net

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