From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from s3.sipsolutions.net ([2a01:4f8:191:4433::2] helo=sipsolutions.net) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.92.3 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1kucmf-000857-GU for linux-um@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 30 Dec 2020 14:49:06 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 20/31] um: allocate a guard page to helper threads From: Johannes Berg Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 15:48:57 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20201230130314.3636961-20-sashal@kernel.org> References: <20201230130314.3636961-1-sashal@kernel.org> <20201230130314.3636961-20-sashal@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-um" Errors-To: linux-um-bounces+geert=linux-m68k.org@lists.infradead.org To: Sasha Levin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Richard Weinberger , linux-um@lists.infradead.org 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. johannes _______________________________________________ linux-um mailing list linux-um@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-um