Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Feb 2002 11:57:55 -0500 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [patch] larger kernel stack (8k->16k) per task |
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On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 04:59:47PM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > If you need even more in your code (I assume you do otherwise you wouldn't > > have done the work) then I really suggest you take a long hard look and fix > > the obvious bugs or the design.... > > Arjan, I completely agree with you, but please do not overlook one obvious > thing -- sometimes (well, most of the time) in order to fix those stack > corruption issues you _first_ need to apply this patch and then it becomes > obvious that the reason for this "random" corruption is the stack > overflow. A kernel panic is not shouting like "I am a stack overflow!"
Stack redzoning makes a lot of sense. And checking isn't that expensive...
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