linux-kernel - SYS_personality does not work correctly on mips(el)64

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Date:	Thu, 12 Oct 2006 23:40:35 +0200
From:	Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@...el32.net>
To:	linux-mips@...ux-mips.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: SYS_personality does not work correctly on mips(el)64

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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