linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix max-stack calculators to skip canary

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Date:	Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:28:12 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>
Cc:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix  max-stack calculators to skip canary


* Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net> wrote:

> With the canary on the end of the stack, anything which looks for 0 to 
> mean unused when calculating max stack excursions must skip over this 
> non-zero magic number.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>

thanks Eric, applied.

	Ingo
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