Re: [PATCH] x86: Remove compat vdso support

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 5:13 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/10/2014 05:12 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> The compat vDSO is a complicated hack that's needed to maintain
>> compatibility with a small range of never-released glibc versions.
>>
>> This removes it and replaces it with a much simpler hack: a config
>> option to disable the 32-bit vDSO by default.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Can we verify this works correctly on the affected distributions?

It works correctly on Fedora 20 32-bit and 64-bit.

I don't actually know what the affected distribution is, which makes
it hard.  But it would be rather surprising if it didn't, since I
suspect people would have noticed and complained very quickly and
loudly if there was ever a glibc version that didn't work without a
vDSO.

TBH, I'd be more surprised if this breaks anything than I'd be if
current kernels are already broken.

--Andy
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