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* [PATCH] setarch: don't return address of automatic variable
@ 2019-01-19 22:18 Andreas Schwab
  2019-01-22 11:02 ` Karel Zak
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Andreas Schwab @ 2019-01-19 22:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: util-linux

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@linux-m68k.org>
---
 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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