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Message-ID: <20100913174721.5fb57678@katamari>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:47:21 -0400
From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jan Sembera <jsembera@...e.cz>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, ink@...assic.park.msu.ru,
stable@...nel.org, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] binfmt_misc: Fix binfmt_misc priority
On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 14:20:03 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:15:20 +0200
> Jan Sembera <jsembera@...e.cz> wrote:
>
> > Commit 74641f584da introduced a regression - binfmt_misc is now consulted
> > after binfmt_elf, which will unfortunately break ia32el. ia32 ELF binaries
> > on ia64 used to be matched using binfmt_misc and executed using wrapper. As
> > 32bit binaries are now matched by binfmt_elf before bindmt_misc kicks in,
> > the wrapper is ignored.
> Yikes, 74641f584da was merged in May 2009. I wonder why this problem
> wasn't noticed before now?
I posted about this on Sep 15, 2009:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125298891709482&w=4
"binfmt_misc takes precedence over binfmt_script in 2.6.30"
I also copied the author of the original patch, but there was no reply.
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