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Message-ID: <20210104142100.GB3665355@sasha-vm>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 09:21:00 -0500
From: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
linux-um@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 20/31] um: allocate a guard page to helper
threads
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 03:48:57PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
>On Wed, 2020-12-30 at 08:03 -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>
>> We've been running into stack overflows in helper threads
>> corrupting memory
>
>For the record, that was mostly referring to "while development", so
>while this change makes a few things a bit safer, I don't think there's
>all that much point in backporting to stable; presumably things are
>working OK there for people, and developers will (hopefully) be working
>on mainline anyway.
I'll drop it, thanks!
--
Thanks,
Sasha
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