Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 May 2014 09:16:08 -0400 | Subject | Re: [tip:x86/urgent] x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels | From | Josh Boyer <> |
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On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote: >> >> It seems that at least some 32-bit programs are also broken, since after >> upgrading the kernel to 3.14.3 I can no longer start my old chess >> database program:
Now that this has hit 3.14.y stable, we have another report of this commit breaking something in Wine, this time MS Access 2000:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1096725 (reporter now CC'd)
> So for backporting (and for 3.15) maybe this (TOTALLY UNTESTED) patch > would be acceptable.
I don't think your patch went anywhere. I have no idea if you want to push that or revert or just tell people to run old apps in 32-bit guests at this point. Just forwarding on the information.
josh
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