Re: [PATCH] binfmt_misc: Fix binfmt_misc priority

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On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 14:20:03 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:15:20 +0200
> Jan Sembera <jsembera@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Commit 74641f584da introduced a regression - binfmt_misc is now consulted
> > after binfmt_elf, which will unfortunately break ia32el. ia32 ELF binaries
> > on ia64 used to be matched using binfmt_misc and executed using wrapper. As
> > 32bit binaries are now matched by binfmt_elf before bindmt_misc kicks in,
> > the wrapper is ignored.

> Yikes, 74641f584da was merged in May 2009.  I wonder why this problem
> wasn't noticed before now?

I posted about this on Sep 15, 2009:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125298891709482&w=4
"binfmt_misc takes precedence over binfmt_script in 2.6.30"

I also copied the author of the original patch, but there was no reply.
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