possible bug in powerpc LE compat syscalls with 64-bit args
Andreas Schwab
schwab at linux-m68k.org
Fri Jun 17 07:42:14 AEST 2016
Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf at mellanox.com> writes:
> Reviewing what other platforms do, it seems like powerpc compat mode may
> have the opposite problem in little-endian mode, since arguments are passed
> in "hi, lo" order unconditionally in arch/powerpc/kernel/sys_ppc32.c.
PPC32 is always big-endian.
Andreas.
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