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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Linux Netdev <linux-netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <Linux-Kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: dev_ifname32() fails on 32->64bit calls in copy_in_user().
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:06:09 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1193792769.9928.84.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071031003850.GE7517@tasint.org>


On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 17:38 -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> Hello folks,
> 	I've been using a nice program on ppc32 with a ppc64
> system+kernel.  It uses netlink to determine some network interface
> information.  Recent kernels cause it to exit at the netlink stage.  At
> first, I thought it was a bug in the program.  Now I'm not so sure.

 .../...

Reproduced here, I'll have a look, thanks.

Ben.



  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-31  1:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-31  0:38 dev_ifname32() fails on 32->64bit calls in copy_in_user() Joel Becker
2007-10-31  1:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-10-31  1:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-10-31  2:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-31  3:41   ` David Miller
2007-10-31  8:03   ` Eric W. Biederman

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