linux-kernel - Re: Fw: Re: [PATCH 1/3] signal(i386): alternative signal stack wraparound occurs

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Date:	Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:07:58 -0800 (PST)
From:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fw: Re: [PATCH 1/3] signal(i386): alternative signal stack
	wraparound occurs

> thanks Roland for the detailed analysis. I've queued up the patch below 
> in the x86 tree. I suspect we can wait with this for v2.6.25, due to 
> this being long-standing behavior of Linux? Thus we could observe the 
> effects of this patch for a longer time.

It's certainly nothing new.  The failure mode of concern is only for a
buggy program to fail to crash as quickly and gracefully as it might.


Thanks,
Roland
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