From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
linux-um@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 20/31] um: allocate a guard page to helper threads
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 09:21:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210104142100.GB3665355@sasha-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d17899cc72a31f12da166de6223338b844ee2428.camel@sipsolutions.net>
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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[not found] <20201230130314.3636961-1-sashal@kernel.org>
2020-12-30 13:03 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 18/31] um: random: Register random as hwrng-core device Sasha Levin
2020-12-30 13:03 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 19/31] um: ubd: Submit all data segments atomically Sasha Levin
2020-12-30 13:03 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 20/31] um: allocate a guard page to helper threads Sasha Levin
2020-12-30 14:48 ` Johannes Berg
2021-01-04 14:21 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
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