Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 11:11:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
       stable-review@kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] Fix 'flush_old_exec()/setup_new_exec()' split
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On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Sven Joachim wrote:
> 
> 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.

Ok. Greg - please skip these patches from stable for now. I'll try to 
figure out what's up.

Sven/Ben: is /sbin/init (or wherever debian puts it) a regular ELF file? 
Shared libraries? Anything at all special about it? I wonder why it seems 
to have issues, when other 32-bit programs don't.

Of course, it's entirely possible that other Debian 32-bit programs do 
not, but I haven't heard about problems with (for example) firefox from 
people who run 64-bit distros but with a 32-bit browser (which at least 
used to be very common due to the whole flash plugin issue). So I wonder 
if there is soemthing special about init.

		Linus
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