On architectures without special personalities setarch uses the contents
of a local variable with automatic storage duration after return from
the function, causing it to report a spurious error.
$ setarch m68k
setarch: Kernel cannot set architecture to m68k
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
sys-utils/setarch.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/sys-utils/setarch.c b/sys-utils/setarch.c
index 7c0a63fbb262..703c36d864e1 100644
--- a/sys-utils/setarch.c
+++ b/sys-utils/setarch.c
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ static void __attribute__((__noreturn__)) usage(int archwrapper)
*/
static struct arch_domain *init_arch_domains(void)
{
- struct utsname un;
+ static struct utsname un;
size_t i;
static struct arch_domain transitions[] =
--
2.20.1
--
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