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-rw-r--r--include/linux/prctl.h7
-rw-r--r--kernel/sys.c13
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/prctl.h b/include/linux/prctl.h
index bf022c43a18e..52a9be41250d 100644
--- a/include/linux/prctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/prctl.h
@@ -52,4 +52,11 @@
#define PR_SET_NAME 15 /* Set process name */
#define PR_GET_NAME 16 /* Get process name */
+/* Get/set process endian */
+#define PR_GET_ENDIAN 19
+#define PR_SET_ENDIAN 20
+# define PR_ENDIAN_BIG 0
+# define PR_ENDIAN_LITTLE 1 /* True little endian mode */
+# define PR_ENDIAN_PPC_LITTLE 2 /* "PowerPC" pseudo little endian */
+
#endif /* _LINUX_PRCTL_H */
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 0b6ec0e7936f..12d2d753dc3b 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -57,6 +57,12 @@
#ifndef GET_FPEXC_CTL
# define GET_FPEXC_CTL(a,b) (-EINVAL)
#endif
+#ifndef GET_ENDIAN
+# define GET_ENDIAN(a,b) (-EINVAL)
+#endif
+#ifndef SET_ENDIAN
+# define SET_ENDIAN(a,b) (-EINVAL)
+#endif
/*
* this is where the system-wide overflow UID and GID are defined, for
@@ -2057,6 +2063,13 @@ asmlinkage long sys_prctl(int option, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3,
return -EFAULT;
return 0;
}
+ case PR_GET_ENDIAN:
+ error = GET_ENDIAN(current, arg2);
+ break;
+ case PR_SET_ENDIAN:
+ error = SET_ENDIAN(current, arg2);
+ break;
+
default:
error = -EINVAL;
break;