Re: Bug#633423: Problem with autofs 64-bit kernel/32-bit userspace compatibility

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 08:15:09PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
[...]
> Thankfully this problem has now been communicated to Linus himself, and
> he agreed that it should be fixed in the kernel.

Of course it should.  A shame that some kernel maintainers think
they don't have to care about 32-bit compat.

(But why hasn't this been spotted on sparc or powerpc already,
where 32-bit userland on 64-bit kernel is the normal case?)

> See the following long > threads on the LKML:
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1255125
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1256405
> 
> I will keep an eye on this bug and send an update when a fix appears in
> Linus' tree that I can test.

Thanks.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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