Bug#633423: Problem with autofs 64-bit kernel/32-bit userspace compatibility
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 07:50:05PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 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.
They tried, but failed.
> (But why hasn't this been spotted on sparc or powerpc already,
> where 32-bit userland on 64-bit kernel is the normal case?)
Sane allignment rules. Only x86-32 and m68k aligns 8-byte values on
4-byte.
Bastian
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