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From: Kjohn Sasitorn <kjohn@cs.utexas.edu>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: patch to exec_domain
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Currently, the personality(2) system call always returns the previous
persona. However, according to the manpage, it should return the previous
persona when successful and -1 otherwise. The following patch to
lookup_exec_domain() should remedy this behavior:

--- kernel-source-2.4.12.orig/kernel/exec_domain.c      Thu Oct 18 09:12:47
2001
+++ kernel-source-2.4.12/kernel/exec_domain.c      Thu Oct 18 09:23:59 2001
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
     }
 #endif

-    ep = &default_exec_domain;
+    ep = NULL;
 out:
     read_unlock(&exec_domains_lock);
     return (ep);


Kjohn Sasitorn
kjohn@cs.utexas.edu