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authorBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2017-10-06 05:00:01 +0300
committerWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2017-10-09 12:00:23 +0300
commit0c3039ffc07cd7c328eca3f9559d0d0102ac9bec (patch)
treebe4380e7ad1c9f2cff387c6e68d97f10f89d5b28
parent359be67862c5e013fcf7c04e352d8824105a76ed (diff)
downloadlinux-0c3039ffc07cd7c328eca3f9559d0d0102ac9bec.tar.xz
arm64: elf.h: Correct comment about READ_IMPLIES_EXEC propagation
Process personality always propagates across a fork(), but can change at an execve(). Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h
index 33be513ef24c..fac1c4de7898 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h
@@ -188,8 +188,8 @@ typedef compat_elf_greg_t compat_elf_gregset_t[COMPAT_ELF_NGREG];
#define compat_start_thread compat_start_thread
/*
- * Unlike the native SET_PERSONALITY macro, the compat version inherits
- * READ_IMPLIES_EXEC across a fork() since this is the behaviour on
+ * Unlike the native SET_PERSONALITY macro, the compat version maintains
+ * READ_IMPLIES_EXEC across an execve() since this is the behaviour on
* arch/arm/.
*/
#define COMPAT_SET_PERSONALITY(ex) \