Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Feb 2010 06:38:48 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [stable] [PATCH] Fix 'flush_old_exec()/setup_new_exec()' split |
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On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 08:29:34AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > 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.
They should all be there already, if not, please let me know.
thanks,
greg k-h
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