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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] alpha: binfmt_aout fix
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:08:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090217110842.GA22272@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090217104956.GC25856@jurassic.park.msu.ru>

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 01:49:56PM +0300, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
> This fixes the problem introduced by commit 3bfacef412 (get rid of
> special-casing the /sbin/loader on alpha): osf/1 ecoff binary
> segfaults when binfmt_aout built as module. That happens because
> aout binary handler gets on the top of the binfmt list due to late
> registration, and kernel attempts to execute the binary without
> preparation work that must be done by binfmt_loader.

I think the proper fix for this is to make sure newly registered
binfmts are added to the tail of the list, not the front.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-17 11:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-17 10:49 [PATCH] alpha: binfmt_aout fix Ivan Kokshaysky
2009-02-17 11:08 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-02-17 11:40   ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2009-02-18 23:52     ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-19  9:40       ` Ivan Kokshaysky
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-04-24 14:47 Ivan Kokshaysky
2009-04-24 15:05 ` Al Viro
2009-04-24 15:46   ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2009-04-24 20:19     ` Al Viro

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