Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752761AbYHGOOn (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2008 10:14:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751071AbYHGOOf (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2008 10:14:35 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:52057 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751019AbYHGOOe (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2008 10:14:34 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 07:14:27 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven To: md@google.com (Michael Davidson) Cc: mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: prevent binaries from making system calls using the wrong syscall interface Message-ID: <20080807071427.38191c79@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20080807003459.37CC629624@localhost> References: <20080807003459.37CC629624@localhost> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 733 Lines: 20 On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 17:34:59 -0700 (PDT) md@google.com (Michael Davidson) wrote: > Prevent binaries from making system calls using other than one > of the "normal" system call interfaces for that binary type. since you can have mixed 32 / 64 binaries just fine I don't think your patch is the right thing to do in general. -- If you want to reach me at my work email, use arjan@linux.intel.com For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- 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/