Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Oct 2004 18:56:17 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] error out on execve with no binfmts |
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Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> wrote: > > Early calls to userspace can invoke an execve() before any binfmt handlers > are registered. Properly return an error in this case rather than 0. > On at least one arch (x86_64) without this patch, the system will double > fault on early attempts to call_usermodehelper. Suggestions on a better > error?
These handlers are installed at core_initcall() time. Who is calling out to userspace so early?
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