Re: [PATCH 6/6] arm64: compat: Check for AArch32 state

[Suzuki K. Poulose]

On 09/02/16 17:36, Will Deacon wrote:

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 11:32:17AM +0000, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:

Make sure we have AArch32 state available for running COMPAT binaries.

                 */
                seq_puts(m, "Features\t:");
-               if (personality(current->personality) == PER_LINUX32) {
+               if (system_supports_32bit_el0() &&
+                       personality(current->personality) == PER_LINUX32) {

Wouldn't it be better to prevent tasks changing to the PER_LINUX32
personality on systems that don't support AArch32 at EL0?

Yes, thats the ideal solution. I took a look at it  and it requires us to
hook in arm64 wrapper for the personality syscall. I will take a look.

Thanks
Suzuki