* Zachary Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > yeah. (plus my patches of course that remove the current
> > papering-over hackery and restores COMPAT_VDSO.)
>
> Yes, I don't have a problem with your patch, I just wish I had been
> cc'd on it. [...]
(i Cc:-ed you to the other ones - i simply forgot and bounced it to you
a few hours down the line - sorry!)
> [...] Fixing this is rather tricky, but I believe no strange build
> magic is required, it can be done in kernel init code. Still building
> my SUSE 9.0 guest to test. SUSE 9.0 is one of those that requires
> COMPAT_VDSO, yes?
yeah, and a handful of other ones. It depends on the glibc version:
early vdso glibs were buggy and assumed a few things about the vdso, so
they would segfault on the new-style vdso which is fully relocatable
(and hence mergable into the vma space, randomizable, etc.).
Ingo
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
