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Date:	Thu, 27 May 2010 20:18:29 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>, wezhang@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
	William Cohen <wcohen@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] sys_personality: validate personality before
	set_personality()

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:51:46AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 27 May 2010, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > 
> > But. Suppose an application does personality(0xffffffff << 32) on x86_64.
> > 
> > Before this patch we return -EINVAL (but wrongly change ->personality).
> > After this patch this is equal to personality(0), right?
> 
> Yes. And I'm willing to take that "risk" in the name of not having to 
> carry crazy stuff around in the kernel.

Perhaps we can have a personality with the old personality behaviour @) 

Just joking, I doubt anything really cares. I don't think personality
was used much in 64bit except for uname emulation.

-Andi
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