Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:25:49 +0200 | From | Aurelien Jarno <> | Subject | Re: SYS_personality does not work correctly on mips(el)64 |
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Thiemo Seufer a écrit : > Aurelien Jarno wrote: >> 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. > > That's caused by mis-handling broken sign extensions, see also > http://bugs.debian.org/380531. >
Nice to see there is already a patch! Thanks for your work. Do you know when the patch will be merged upstream or in Debian? I really want to see this bug fixed, as it breaks dchroot.
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