Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels

Josh Boyer
2014-05-12T13:16:11Z

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> It seems that at least some 32-bit programs are also broken, since after
>> upgrading the kernel to 3.14.3 I can no longer start my old chess
>> database program:

Now that this has hit 3.14.y stable, we have another report of this
commit breaking something in Wine, this time MS Access 2000:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1096725 (reporter now CC'd)

> So for backporting (and for 3.15) maybe this (TOTALLY UNTESTED) patch
> would be acceptable.

I don't think your patch went anywhere. I have no idea if you want to
push that or revert or just tell people to run old apps in 32-bit
guests at this point. Just forwarding on the information.

josh