Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:53:27 -0700 | Subject | Re: Breaking userspace? Re: 3.0.24 broke aufofs on mixed 32/64bit environment |
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On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote: > > The userspace is running debian stable (squeeze). Debian has autofs > package based on upstream 5.0.4 version. That (upstream) version has > the "bug-compat" code in it, in daemon/automount.c: > > static size_t get_kpkt_len(void) > { > size_t pkt_len = sizeof(struct autofs_v5_packet); > struct utsname un; > > uname(&un); > > if (pkt_len % 8) { > if (strcmp(un.machine, "alpha") == 0 || > strcmp(un.machine, "ia64") == 0 || > strcmp(un.machine, "x86_64") == 0 || > strcmp(un.machine, "ppc64") == 0) > pkt_len += 4;
Ugh.
So how did this break for Thomas Mayer (there was another person involved too, I forget the details)? Is this code somehow config-dependent so that it doesn't even get compiled for some cases?
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