From: Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== 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: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/compat.h | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/compat.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/compat.h index a613d2c82fd9..b142b8e0ed9e 100644 --- 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; -- 1.9.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html