[PATCH] Fix compat uname machine

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From: Andreas Schwab
Date: Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 9:28 am

Mask off personality flags when checking for PER_LINUX32.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
---
On ppc64 you get this error:

$ setarch ppc -R true
setarch: ppc: Unrecognized architecture

because uname still reports ppc64 as the machine.

Andreas.

---
 kernel/sys.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 6d1a7e0..7cb426a 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1118,7 +1118,7 @@ DECLARE_RWSEM(uts_sem);
 
 #ifdef COMPAT_UTS_MACHINE
 #define override_architecture(name) \
-	(current->personality == PER_LINUX32 && \
+	(personality(current->personality) == PER_LINUX32 && \
 	 copy_to_user(name->machine, COMPAT_UTS_MACHINE, \
 		      sizeof(COMPAT_UTS_MACHINE)))
 #else
-- 
1.7.0.4


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[PATCH] Fix compat uname machine, Andreas Schwab, (Thu Apr 15, 9:28 am)
Re: [PATCH] Fix compat uname machine, Christoph Hellwig, (Thu Apr 15, 10:00 am)
Re: [PATCH] Fix compat uname machine, David Miller, (Thu Apr 15, 3:35 pm)