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authorDavid Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>2010-11-01 17:43:07 -0700
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>2010-12-16 18:10:54 +0000
commit1c0d52b9b5e6ca277c13d6fece9c34ed3159423d (patch)
tree81ffb96ca45de9cdeff0bae2759c1b220d87f1be /arch/mips/include
parent1d210386f6ef9000b1cd723cf453c5eb0377e722 (diff)
downloadlinux-1c0d52b9b5e6ca277c13d6fece9c34ed3159423d.tar.gz
MIPS: Don't clobber personality high bits.
The high bits of current->personality carry settings that we don't want to
clobber on each exec.  Only clobber them if the lower bits that indicate
either PER_LINUX or PER_LINUX32 are invalid.

The clobbering prevents us from using useful bits like ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE.

Reported-by: Camm Maguire <camm@maguirefamily.org>
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: Camm Maguire <camm@maguirefamily.org>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1750/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/mips/include')
-rw-r--r--arch/mips/include/asm/elf.h8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/elf.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/elf.h
index fd1d39eb7431..455c0ac7d4ea 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/elf.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/elf.h
@@ -249,7 +249,8 @@ extern struct mips_abi mips_abi_n32;
 
 #define SET_PERSONALITY(ex)						\
 do {									\
-	set_personality(PER_LINUX);					\
+	if (personality(current->personality) != PER_LINUX)		\
+		set_personality(PER_LINUX);				\
 									\
 	current->thread.abi = &mips_abi;				\
 } while (0)
@@ -296,6 +297,8 @@ do {									\
 
 #define SET_PERSONALITY(ex)						\
 do {									\
+	unsigned int p;							\
+									\
 	clear_thread_flag(TIF_32BIT_REGS);				\
 	clear_thread_flag(TIF_32BIT_ADDR);				\
 									\
@@ -304,7 +307,8 @@ do {									\
 	else								\
 		current->thread.abi = &mips_abi;			\
 									\
-	if (current->personality != PER_LINUX32)			\
+	p = personality(current->personality);				\
+	if (p != PER_LINUX32 && p != PER_LINUX)				\
 		set_personality(PER_LINUX);				\
 } while (0)