linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] auxvec.h: account for AT_HWCAP2 in AT_VECTOR_SIZE

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Message-ID: <20131224211301.GA20469@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 24 Dec 2013 13:13:01 -0800
From:	Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
	Michael Neuling <michael@...ling.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] auxvec.h: account for AT_HWCAP2 in AT_VECTOR_SIZE_BASE

On 23.12.2013 [17:37:00 -0800], Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Please cc the guilty parties when sending patches like this.
> 
> Also, just out of interest, please describe how this bug affected
> things. Did we overflow the saved_auxv[] array, or what? Also, how
> does this change affect architectures that _don't_ have that
> ELF_HWCAP2 thing, ie everything but powerpc?
> 
> Acks, people?

Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

I agree with Mikey that a comment might be useful. Thanks for the fix
and sorry for the mistake!

-Nish

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