Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | | Subject | Re: [CHECKER] large stack variables (>=1K) in 2.4.4 and 2.4.4-ac8 | | Date | Fri, 25 May 2001 16:03:57 +0200 |
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> A small overflow of the kernel stack overwrites the struct task at the > bottom of the stack, recovery is dubious at best because we rely on > data in struct task. A large overflow of the kernel stack either > corrupts the storage below this task's stack, which could hit anything, > or it gets a stack fault.
Is there a reason for the task structure to be at the bottom rather than the top of these two pages ?
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