Bug 9378

Summary:	uml doesn't work on 2.6.24-rc2
Product:	Other	Reporter:	Rafael J. Wysocki (rjwysocki)
Component:	Other	Assignee:	other_other
Status:	CLOSED CODE_FIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	jdike, miklos
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.24-rc2	Subsystem:
Regression:	Yes	Bisected commit-id:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	9243

Description Rafael J. Wysocki 2007-11-14 04:34:52 UTC

Subject         : uml doesn't work on 2.6.24-rc2
Submitter       : Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/13/469

Comment 1 Rafael J. Wysocki 2007-11-14 13:34:47 UTC

Partially fixed by:

commit fd181c72a3c202a3986bcee7551c0838265aec2a
Author: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue Nov 6 15:30:38 2007 -0800

    x86_64: ia32 ptrace THREAD_AREA fix

http://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fd181c72a3c202a3986bcee7551c0838265aec2a

Comment 2 Rafael J. Wysocki 2007-11-14 13:35:46 UTC

Patch is available: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/14/262

Comment 3 Rafael J. Wysocki 2007-11-16 15:35:48 UTC

Fixed by:

commit ecd744eec3aa8bbc949ec04ed3fbf7ecb2958a0e
Author: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Date:   Wed Nov 7 10:48:39 2007 -0500

    x86 - 32-bit ptrace emulation mishandles 6th arg

http://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ecd744eec3aa8bbc949ec04ed3fbf7ecb2958a0e