linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/4] exec: unify compat/non-compat code

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Date:	Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:00:16 +0100
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	pageexec@...email.hu, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>,
	Eugene Teo <eteo@...hat.com>,
	Brad Spengler <spender@...ecurity.net>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/4] exec: unify compat/non-compat code

(remove stable)

On 11/30, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> I'll send the cleanups which unify compat/non-compat code on
> top of these fixes, this is not stable material.

On top of

	[PATCH 1/2] exec: make argv/envp memory visible to oom-killer
	[PATCH 2/2] exec: copy-and-paste the fixes into compat_do_execve() paths

Imho, execve code in fs/compat.c must die. It is very hard to
maintain this copy-and-paste horror.

Oleg.

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