linux-kernel - Re: Regression: audit: x86: drop arch from __audit_syscall

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Date:	Wed, 22 Oct 2014 14:23:10 -0400
From:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
To:	Paulo Zanoni <przanoni@...il.com>
Cc:	Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-audit@...hat.com,
	Intel Graphics Development <intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
Subject: Re: Regression: audit: x86: drop arch from __audit_syscall_entry()
 interface

That's really serious.  Looking now.

On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 16:08 -0200, Paulo Zanoni wrote:
> Hi
> 
> (Cc'ing everybody mentioned in the original patch)
> 
> I work for Intel, on our Linux Graphics driver - aka i915.ko - and our
> QA team recently reported a regression on:
> 
> commit b4f0d3755c5e9cc86292d5fd78261903b4f23d4a
> Author: Richard Guy Briggs
> Date:   Tue Mar 4 10:38:06 2014 -0500
>     audit: x86: drop arch from __audit_syscall_entry() interface
> 
> According to our QA, their i386 machine doesn't boot anymore. I tried
> to write my own revert for the patch, asked QA to test, and they
> confirmed it "solves" the problem.
> 
> Here are the details of QA' s bug report:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85277 .
> 
> The trees our QA tests are the development trees from i915.ko:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm-intel?h=drm-intel-fixes .
> 
> I tried searching for other bug reports on the same patch, but
> couldn't find any. Forgive me if this bug was already reported.
> 
> Feel free to continue this discussion on the bugzilla report if you want.
> 
> Thanks,
> Paulo
> 


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