Re: [PATCH 16/24] link_path_walk: kill the recursion

Linus Torvalds
2015-04-20T21:42:59Z

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> And no, we will *never* lift the recursion limit. Not for 1kB, not for
> 1MB. Never.

Just to clarify: that's for the "remove restrictions completely".
Upping it to 32 or 40 would be fine. But not with allocations on the
stack.

Linus