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

[Sven Joachim]

On 2010-02-04 20:11 +0100, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 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.

,----
| % file /sbin/init
| /sbin/init: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, stripped
| % ldd /sbin/init
| 	linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xf770d000)
| 	libsepol.so.1 => /lib/libsepol.so.1 (0xf76c0000)
| 	libselinux.so.1 => /lib/libselinux.so.1 (0xf76a6000)
| 	libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xf755e000)
| 	libdl.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xf755a000)
| 	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf770e000)
`----

Apparently nothing special, and booting with init=/bin/bash does not
change anything.

Sven
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