sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/personality.c

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  17
  18 #include <sys/personality.h>
  19 #include <sysdep.h>
  20
  21 extern __typeof (personality) __personality;
  22
  23 int
  24 __personality (unsigned long persona)
  25 {
  26 #ifdef PERSONALITY_TRUNCATE_ARGUMENT
  27   /* Starting with kernel commit v2.6.21-3117-g97dc32c, the type of
  28      task_struct->pesonality is "unsigned int".
  29      Starting with kernel commit v2.6.35-rc1-372-g485d527, the personality
  30      syscall accepts "unsigned int" instead of "long unsigned int".
  31      In between, a personality argument that does not fit into "unsigned int"
  32      would result to system call returning -EINVAL.
  33      We explicitly truncate the personality argument to "unsigned int"
  34      to eliminate the uncertainty.  */
  35   persona = (unsigned int) persona;
  36 #endif
  37
  38   long int ret = INTERNAL_SYSCALL_CALL (personality, persona);
  39
  40   /* Starting with kernel commit v2.6.29-6609-g11d06b2, the personality syscall
  41      never fails.  However, 32-bit kernels might flag valid values as errors, so
  42      we need to reverse the error setting.  We can't use the raw result as some
  43      arches split the return/error values.  */
  44   if (__glibc_unlikely (INTERNAL_SYSCALL_ERROR_P (ret)))
  45     ret = -INTERNAL_SYSCALL_ERRNO (ret);
  46   return ret;
  47 }
  48 weak_alias (__personality, personality)