[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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