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Message-ID: <9b35a19d-800c-f9f9-6b45-cf2038ef235f@roeck-us.net>
Date:   Sun, 2 Jul 2023 20:23:21 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Helge Deller <deller@....de>
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux-parisc <linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        John David Anglin <dave.anglin@...l.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.4 00/28] 6.4.1-rc1 review - hppa argument list too long

On 7/2/23 16:30, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jul 2023 at 15:45, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> Would you mind just verifying that yes, that commit on mainline is
>> broken for you, and the previous one works?
> 
> Also, while I looked at it again, and still didn't understand why
> parisc would be different here, I *did* realize that because parisc
> has a stack that grows up, the debug warning I added for GUP won't
> trigger.
> 
> So if I got that execve() logic wrong for STACK_GROWSUP (which I
> clearly must have), then exactly because it's grows-up, a GUP failure
> wouldn't warn about not expanding the stack.
> 
> IOW, would you mind applying something like this on top of the current
> kernel, and let me know if it warns?
> 

I can reproduce the problem in qemu. However, I do not see a warning
after applying your patch.

Guenter

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