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Greg KH wrote: > -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. > > ------------------ > From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> > > patch 6b6815c6d5d1dc209701d1661a7a0e09a295db2f in mainline. > > Apparently some specific versions of LILO enter the kernel with a > stack pointer that doesn't match the rest of the segments. Make our > best attempt at untangling the resulting mess. > > Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Just FYI: It has been reported that while this patch fixes old LILO, and possibly some other boot loaders (unknown), it has also broken older versions of SYSLINUX: they still boot, but the command line is truncated (exactly how much depends on the BIOS, but typical values are around 130 bytes.) This is definitely traceable to a bug in SYSLINUX that was already fixed in release 3.50 (the current version of SYSLINUX is 3.52). I have chosen to leave the patch in mainline, rather than trying yet another recipe and hope it doesn't break on some other random combination of bootloaders, since: a) SYSLINUX is generally easily updated, compared to other bootloaders; b) The failure mode is less severe (it still boots.) ... however, you may choose to call differently. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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