linux-kernel - Re: [vs-plain] Re: [PATCH] mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas

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Date:   Thu, 22 Jun 2017 16:34:43 +0200
From:   Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To:     Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:     Levente Polyak <anthraxx@...hlinux.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
        Larry Woodman <lwoodman@...hat.com>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...isc-linux.org>,
        Helge Diller <deller@....de>,
        James Hogan <james.hogan@...tec.com>,
        Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
        security@...nel.org, linux-distros@...openwall.org, qsa@...lys.com,
        stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [vs-plain] Re: [PATCH] mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 03:14:00PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-06-22 at 15:59 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > but I think Ben is currently looking
> > for feedback on the validity of his backport which was a difficult
> > task.
> 
> Right.

Ben, barring more feedback, I think your should put your patch to your
stable queue so that Guenter can run his build+boot tests. They managed
to spot a few issues in my patches and that will make you more confident
regarding the whole architectures coverage.

Just my 2c,
Willy