This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/compat: 32-bit little endian machine name is ppcle, not ppc
to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
powerpc-compat-32-bit-little-endian-machine-name-is-ppcle-not-ppc.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 422b9b9684db3c511e65c91842275c43f5910ae9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 16:10:11 +1100
Subject: powerpc/compat: 32-bit little endian machine name is ppcle, not ppc
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 422b9b9684db3c511e65c91842275c43f5910ae9 upstream.
I noticed this when testing setarch. No, we don't magically
support a big endian userspace on a little endian kernel.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/compat.h | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/compat.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/compat.h
@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@
#include <linux/sched.h>
#define COMPAT_USER_HZ 100
+#ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN__
#define COMPAT_UTS_MACHINE "ppc\0\0"
+#else
+#define COMPAT_UTS_MACHINE "ppcle\0\0"
+#endif
typedef u32 compat_size_t;
typedef s32 compat_ssize_t;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from anton@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/kvm-ppc-book3s-hv-fix-kvm-hang-with-config_kvm_xics-n.patch
queue-3.14/powerpc-compat-32-bit-little-endian-machine-name-is-ppcle-not-ppc.patch
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