linux-kernel - Re: Breaking userspace? Re: 3.0.24 broke aufofs on mixed 32/64bit environment

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFyhTj2TjQ46ewruKXGF=x0ng2HAOfMDSC96WH3UTt=B5Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 24 Apr 2012 21:08:54 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>
Cc:	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>, Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>,
	"stable@...nel.org" <stable@...nel.org>, autofs@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Breaking userspace? Re: 3.0.24 broke aufofs on mixed 32/64bit environment

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru> wrote:
>
> How about something like
>
>     sbi->compat_daemon = is_compat_task() && strcmp(task->comm, "automount") != 0
>
> instead?  (This task->comm is a pseudocode, just to show the idea, I don't
> know where this info can be found in kernel)

Thomas, does that work for you?

                Linus
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