Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757955Ab0BDS5m (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:57:42 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:59502 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757832Ab0BDS5k (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:57:40 -0500 Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:57:52 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Sven Joachim Cc: Ben Hutchings , Linus Torvalds , stable-review@kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, LKML Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] Fix 'flush_old_exec()/setup_new_exec()' split Message-ID: <20100204185752.GA18595@kroah.com> References: <1265245849.3362.1.camel@localhost> <1265256174.2952.11.camel@localhost> <1265272174.2952.20.camel@localhost> <20100204143848.GB15438@kroah.com> <87sk9gbzzt.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87sk9gbzzt.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1938 Lines: 47 On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 07:46:30PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2010-02-04 15:38 +0100, Greg KH wrote: > > > 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. > > It seems they are all there, but on my system with 64-bit kernel and > 32-bit userland, 2.6.32.8-rc1 still panics in the way noticed by Ben. Does 2.6.33-rc6 also cause you the same problem? thanks, greg k-h -- 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/