linux-kernel - Re: [stable] [PATCH] Fix 'flush_old_exec()/setup_new

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1002041135110.3707@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 4 Feb 2010 11:37:24 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Sven Joachim <svenjoac@....de>
cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	stable-review@...nel.org, stable@...nel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] Fix 'flush_old_exec()/setup_new_exec()' split



On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Sven Joachim wrote:

> On 2010-02-04 19:57 +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 07:46:30PM +0100, 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.
> >
> > Does 2.6.33-rc6 also cause you the same problem?
> 
> A build from Linus' current git tree (commit 7ab02af42 was added after
> 2.6.33-rc6, so I skipped that version) does not show the problem.
> Actually, I'm using it right now.

Ok, then that's just really odd. I don't think there are any other changes 
in this area, and the whole init problem sure as hell smells like execve 
setup problems. And afaik, 2.6.32.8-rc1 should have all the commits from 
current -git.

Maybe we're looking at a separate issue after all.

			Linus
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