Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 23 Aug 2014 16:42:46 +0200 | From | Oleg Nesterov <> | Subject | [PATCH 0/1] ipc/shm: fix the historical/wrong mm->start_stack check |
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On 08/23, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > But for what? Ignoring the (I think buggy) check in do_shmat() ->start_stack > is simply unused, we only report it via /proc/.
Really, I think do_shmat() should not abuse ->start_stack. Not only it is wrong and unneeded afaics, do_shmat() is the only user of ->start_stack, this adds more confusion.
Oleg.
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