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authorRobin Holt <holt@sgi.com>2005-12-05 21:02:31 -0500
committerTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>2005-12-06 12:12:34 -0500
commitbd1d6e2451f2bb0132416fda4d129c4f57a827bc (patch)
tree64fc1ba7d4734ea5ecec8942795b32a32e4623a4 /arch/ia64/kernel
parentacb7f67280128a9ddaa756ff10212391d28caec4 (diff)
[IA64] Change SET_PERSONALITY to comply with comment in binfmt_elf.c.
We have a customer application which trips a bug. The problem arises when a driver attempts to call do_munmap on an area which is mapped, but because current->thread.task_size has been set to 0xC0000000, the call to do_munmap fails thinking it is an unmap beyond the user's address space. The comment in fs/binfmt_elf.c in load_elf_library() before the call to SET_PERSONALITY() indicates that task_size must not be changed for the running application until flush_thread, but is for ia64 executing ia32 binaries. This patch moves the setting of task_size from SET_PERSONALITY() to flush_thread() as indicated. The customer application no longer is able to trip the bug. Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/ia64/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/ia64/kernel/process.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c
index 2e33665d9c18..a4da715a360c 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/process.c
@@ -721,8 +721,11 @@ flush_thread (void)
721 /* drop floating-point and debug-register state if it exists: */ 721 /* drop floating-point and debug-register state if it exists: */
722 current->thread.flags &= ~(IA64_THREAD_FPH_VALID | IA64_THREAD_DBG_VALID); 722 current->thread.flags &= ~(IA64_THREAD_FPH_VALID | IA64_THREAD_DBG_VALID);
723 ia64_drop_fpu(current); 723 ia64_drop_fpu(current);
724 if (IS_IA32_PROCESS(ia64_task_regs(current))) 724 if (IS_IA32_PROCESS(ia64_task_regs(current))) {
725 ia32_drop_partial_page_list(current); 725 ia32_drop_partial_page_list(current);
726 current->thread.task_size = IA32_PAGE_OFFSET;
727 set_fs(USER_DS);
728 }
726} 729}
727 730
728/* 731/*