From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.11-rc3: Kylix application no longer works?
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 18:51:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050208175106.GA1091@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050207145100.6208b8b9.akpm@osdl.org>
Hi!
> I wonder if reverting the patch will restore the old behaviour?
This seems to be minimal fix to get Kylix application back to the
working state... Maybe it is good idea for 2.6.11?
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Pavel
--- clean/fs/binfmt_elf.c 2005-02-03 22:27:19.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/fs/binfmt_elf.c 2005-02-08 18:46:38.000000000 +0100
@@ -803,11 +803,8 @@
nbyte = ELF_MIN_ALIGN - nbyte;
if (nbyte > elf_brk - elf_bss)
nbyte = elf_brk - elf_bss;
- if (clear_user((void __user *) elf_bss + load_bias, nbyte)) {
- retval = -EFAULT;
- send_sig(SIGKILL, current, 0);
- goto out_free_dentry;
- }
+ if (clear_user((void __user *) elf_bss + load_bias, nbyte))
+ printk(KERN_ERR "Error clearing BSS, wrong ELF executable? (Kylix?!)\n");
}
}
--
People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers...
...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-08 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-07 22:11 2.6.11-rc3: Kylix application no longer works? Pavel Machek
2005-02-07 22:51 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-08 0:03 ` Daniel Drake
2005-02-08 0:18 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-08 0:56 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2005-02-08 4:06 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-08 17:13 ` Pavel Machek
2005-02-08 8:15 ` Daniel Drake
2005-02-08 17:27 ` Pavel Machek
2005-02-08 17:51 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-02-08 19:16 ` Stephen Hemminger
2005-02-09 2:10 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-09 11:11 ` Pavel Machek
2005-02-09 15:34 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-02-09 20:13 ` Rik van Riel
2005-02-12 0:39 ` Ingo Oeser
2005-02-08 20:43 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-02-08 22:27 ` Pavel Machek
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