Re: [stable] [PATCH] Fix 'flush_old_exec()/setup_new_exec()' split

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Feb 04 2010 - 09:41:36 EST


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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