From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <5370FC3F.30609@linux.intel.com> Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 09:52:15 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Josh Boyer , Linus Torvalds CC: Sven Joachim , Alexandre Julliard , Brian Gerst , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Thomas Gleixner , stable , info@kobaltwit.be Subject: Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels References: <87k3aspd1h.fsf@wine.dyndns.org> <87zjiuymiu.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 05/12/2014 06:16 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Linus Torvalds > wrote: >> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Sven Joachim 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. > Linus is off the net at the moment. Someone needs to take his patch and test it/clean it up. -hpa