clone 520034 -1 reassign -1 linux-2.6.24 thanks On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:11:45AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-24 > Severity: critical > Tags: patch > Justification: breaks unrelated software > > Uninexistant syscalls on mips/mipsel return -ENOSYS errno instead of > ENOSYS. Moreover in some cases it even returns EINVAL instead of ENOSYS. > This make userland software like glibc or coreutils unable to detect > that the syscall does not exist and implement a fallback, which leads > to breakage like 'touch' not working anymore. > > This is especially true for lenny running with a kernel from etch, and > will become more true with sid with a kernel from lenny as the glibc > version increases. > > This has been fixed in kernel 2.6.28, so kernels from etch, etchnhalf > and lenny are affected. The patch series below applies for all of > them. etchnhalf kernel is a different source package. Cloning the bug.
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