Messages in this thread | | | From | Roland McGrath <> | Subject | Re: Fw: Re: [PATCH 1/3] signal(i386): alternative signal stack wraparound occurs | Date | Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:07:58 -0800 (PST) |
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> thanks Roland for the detailed analysis. I've queued up the patch below > in the x86 tree. I suspect we can wait with this for v2.6.25, due to > this being long-standing behavior of Linux? Thus we could observe the > effects of this patch for a longer time.
It's certainly nothing new. The failure mode of concern is only for a buggy program to fail to crash as quickly and gracefully as it might.
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