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Re: [PATCH] tilegx: provide a setxid.h to handle negative uids

From: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf at tilera dot com>
To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
Cc: <libc-ports at sourceware dot org>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 09:28:03 -0400
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tilegx: provide a setxid.h to handle negative uids
References: <201205172053.q4HKrjdU035038@gx-1.internal.tilera.com> <Pine.LNX.4.64.1205172317340.28988@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>

On 5/17/2012 7:20 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2012, Chris Metcalf wrote:
>
>> We observed a bug where setreuid(-1, -1) was becoming
>> setreuid(4294967295, 4294967295) instead, and therefore failing,
>> instead of doing nothing and returning success.
> For MIPS there was such an issue but it was concluded that it was a kernel 
> bug and the kernel should properly extend syscall arguments passed from 
> userspace; see the references in bug 4459.  Is tilegx doing things 
> differently from that?

I was able to slide the change to the tilegx kernel to use SYSCALL_WRAPPERS
under the wire and hit 3.4.  I also tagged it for stable@vger.kernel.org. 
Thanks again!

-- 
Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp.
http://www.tilera.com

References:
- [PATCH] tilegx: provide a setxid.h to handle negative uids
  - From: Chris Metcalf
- Re: [PATCH] tilegx: provide a setxid.h to handle negative uids
  - From: Joseph S. Myers

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