From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chuck Ebbert Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 21:47:21 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] binfmt_misc: Fix binfmt_misc priority Message-Id: <20100913174721.5fb57678@katamari> List-Id: References: <20100823141520.GB17894@alaris.suse.cz> <20100903142003.b6f02a0c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20100903142003.b6f02a0c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Andrew Morton Cc: Jan Sembera , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru, stable@kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, "Luck, Tony" On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 14:20:03 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:15:20 +0200 > Jan Sembera 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&m5298891709482&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.