[PATCH] powerpc: fix personality handling in ppc64_personality()

[Andreas Schwab]

Jiri Kosina <jkosina at suse.cz> writes:

>  	if (personality(current->personality) == PER_LINUX32
> -	    && personality == PER_LINUX)
> -		personality = PER_LINUX32;
> +	    && personality(personality) == PER_LINUX)
> +		personality &= ~PER_LINUX | PER_LINUX32;

That doesn't work.  ~PER_LINUX is -1, so this is a no-op.

>  	ret = sys_personality(personality);
> -	if (ret == PER_LINUX32)
> -		ret = PER_LINUX;
> +	if (personality(ret) == PER_LINUX32)
> +		ret &= ~PER_LINUX32 | PER_LINUX;

That only "works" because PER_LINUX is 0.

Andreas.

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