[PATCH] powerpc: compat: 32 bit little endian machine name is ppcle, not ppc
Anton Blanchard
anton at samba.org
Thu Mar 6 16:10:11 EST 2014
I noticed this when testing setarch. No, we don't magically
support a big endian userspace on a little endian kernel.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # v3.10+
---
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/compat.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/compat.h
index 84fdf68..ef22898 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/compat.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/compat.h
@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@
#include <linux/sched.h>
#define COMPAT_USER_HZ 100
+#ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN__
#define COMPAT_UTS_MACHINE "ppc\0\0"
+#else
+#define COMPAT_UTS_MACHINE "ppcle\0\0"
+#endif
typedef u32 compat_size_t;
typedef s32 compat_ssize_t;
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