On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 04:05:56PM -0600, Mike Christie wrote:
> On 03/03/2010 01:13 PM, Florian Lohoff wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> i reported a bug into the Debian Bug Tracking system that with
>> a 64bit Kernel and a 32bit Userspace the login fails.
>>
>> See here:
>>
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=502845#51
>>
>> This is very reproducable - using a 32 bit kernel or a pure 64 bit
>> userland makes it work immediatly - From Bastians response my guess
>> was that some 64/32 syscall wrapper is missing but my question on
>> how to proceed was not answered so i guess its the right thing to
>> send it here too ..
>>
>
> The iscsi netlink struct is not laid out correctly so on 32 bit user 64  
> bit kernel setups, when it gets passed from userspace to the kernel it  
> gets messed up. We have to redo the interface to fix this. Until then  
> you have to use 32 bit user with 32 bit kernel or 64 bit user with 64  
> bit kernels.
>

Is there any timeframe for this fix? 

I was planning to install 64bit kernel to a 32bit RHEL5 system 
(yes, not officially supported, I know ;) but this bug kind of makes
it no-go.. unfortunately.

-- Pasi

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