Re: [stable] [PATCH] Fix 'flush_old_exec()/setup_new_exec()' split

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Feb 04 2010 - 14:39:20 EST




On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Sven Joachim wrote:

> On 2010-02-04 19:57 +0100, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 07:46:30PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> >> It seems they are all there, but on my system with 64-bit kernel and
> >> 32-bit userland, 2.6.32.8-rc1 still panics in the way noticed by Ben.
> >
> > Does 2.6.33-rc6 also cause you the same problem?
>
> A build from Linus' current git tree (commit 7ab02af42 was added after
> 2.6.33-rc6, so I skipped that version) does not show the problem.
> Actually, I'm using it right now.

Ok, then that's just really odd. I don't think there are any other changes
in this area, and the whole init problem sure as hell smells like execve
setup problems. And afaik, 2.6.32.8-rc1 should have all the commits from
current -git.

Maybe we're looking at a separate issue after all.

Linus
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