Messages in this thread | | | From | Ben Hutchings <> | Date | Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:29:34 +0000 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix 'flush_old_exec()/setup_new_exec()' split |
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On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 21:39 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > I'm using Debian i386 (i.e. 32-bit userland) with a 64-bit kernel. > > After applying commit 221af7f to Debian's kernel source (approximately > > equivalent to 2.6.32.7), the kernel fails to exec init. After commit > > 7ab02af it can exec init but that immediately segfaults: > > It sounds like you have picked individual commits.
Yes - I'm one of the kernel package maintainers and we're sticking with 2.6.32-stable.
> But you don't mention commit 05d43ed8a, which is also a required part of > the series. > > So you _should_ have a combination of > - 221af7f87 ("Split 'flush_old_exec' into two functions") > - 05d43ed8a ("x86: get rid of the insane TIF_ABI_PENDING bit") > - 7ab02af42 ("Fix 'flush_old_exec()/setup_new_exec()' split") > > (and there are also additional sparc/ppc versions of that TIF_ABI_PENDING > bit removal, but they shouldn't matter on your system)
Thanks. If all the necessary patches are all in the stable queue then we can pick them from there.
Ben.
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