[PATCH v2 09/10] x86/Kconfig: document release year of glibc 2.3.3

From: Mateusz Jończyk
Date: Sun Sep 11 2022 - 04:48:42 EST


I wonder how many people were checking their glibc version when
considering whether to enable this option.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Jończyk <mat.jonczyk@xxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2: shorten prompt.

arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 31f778b0cd0b..4612c356da4c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -2278,7 +2278,7 @@ config DEBUG_HOTPLUG_CPU0

config COMPAT_VDSO
def_bool n
- prompt "Disable the 32-bit vDSO (needed for glibc 2.3.3)"
+ prompt "Workaround for glibc 2.3.2 / 2.3.3 (released in year 2003/2004)"
depends on COMPAT_32
help
Certain buggy versions of glibc will crash if they are
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2.25.1