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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86-64: seccomp: fix 32/64 syscall hole
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 05:46:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090228044614.GA17082@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0902271948570.3111@localhost.localdomain>


* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > Ok, please explain this madness.
> > 
> > The whole crazy IS_COMPAT_TASK dance seems to be too messy 
> > for words. Why? What's going on?
> 
> Ok, I can see what's going on. And it's disgusting.
> 
> Just make everybody do that "is_compat_task()" thing. parisc 
> already did, and you just made x86-64 do so too. The only 
> remaining TIF_32BIT users are powerpc and sparc. So instead of 
> having this insane crud, please just add the trivial 
> definitions to the two remaining places, and we don't have to 
> have this insane mess. Ok?
> 
> It is clear that TIF_32BIT is _not_ a generic flag for 
> 32/64-bit system calls, so let's stop pretending it is, and 
> then having ugly special cases for when it's not.

Seconded.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-28  4:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-28  3:02 [PATCH 0/2] x86-64: 32/64 syscall arch holes Roland McGrath
2009-02-28  3:03 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86-64: syscall-audit: fix 32/64 syscall hole Roland McGrath
2009-02-28  3:04 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86-64: seccomp: " Roland McGrath
2009-02-28  3:36   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-02-28  3:52     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-02-28  4:46       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-02-28  7:25       ` Roland McGrath
2009-02-28  7:31         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-28  7:36           ` Roland McGrath
2009-02-28 17:23         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-02-28 17:46           ` [stable] " Greg KH
2009-02-28 17:54             ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-02-28 18:23               ` Greg KH
2009-02-28 20:27                 ` Greg KH
2009-02-28 21:09           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-03-02  1:44           ` Roland McGrath
2009-05-06 18:46           ` Markus Gutschke (顧孟勤)
2009-05-06 21:29             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-06 21:46               ` Markus Gutschke (顧孟勤)
2009-05-06 21:54                 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-06 22:08                   ` Markus Gutschke (顧孟勤)
2009-05-06 22:13                     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-06 22:21                       ` Markus Gutschke (顧孟勤)
2009-05-07  4:23                         ` Nicholas Miell
2009-05-07 10:11                           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-10  5:37                             ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-08 19:18                     ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-07  7:31                 ` Roland McGrath
2009-05-08  1:59                   ` David Wagner
2009-05-10  5:36                     ` Pavel Machek
     [not found]                 ` <20090507070312.DCC5EFC39E@magilla.sf.frob.com>
2009-05-07  8:01                   ` Markus Gutschke (顧孟勤)

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