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Subject[PATCH] x86: suppress stack overrun message for init_task
init_task doesn't get its stack end location set to STACK_END_MAGIC,
and hence the message is confusing rather than helpful in this case.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>

---
arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-2.6.32-rc8/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ 2.6.32-rc8-x86-init-task-stack/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -658,7 +658,7 @@ no_context(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigne
show_fault_oops(regs, error_code, address);

stackend = end_of_stack(tsk);
- if (*stackend != STACK_END_MAGIC)
+ if (tsk != &init_task && *stackend != STACK_END_MAGIC)
printk(KERN_ALERT "Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted\n");

tsk->thread.cr2 = address;




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