Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 May 2014 09:52:15 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels |
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On 05/12/2014 06:16 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Linus Torvalds > <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: >> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote: >>> >>> It seems that at least some 32-bit programs are also broken, since after >>> upgrading the kernel to 3.14.3 I can no longer start my old chess >>> database program: > > Now that this has hit 3.14.y stable, we have another report of this > commit breaking something in Wine, this time MS Access 2000: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1096725 (reporter now CC'd) > >> So for backporting (and for 3.15) maybe this (TOTALLY UNTESTED) patch >> would be acceptable. > > I don't think your patch went anywhere. I have no idea if you want to > push that or revert or just tell people to run old apps in 32-bit > guests at this point. Just forwarding on the information. >
Linus is off the net at the moment. Someone needs to take his patch and test it/clean it up.
-hpa
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