The patch titled Subject: stringh-work-around-for-increased-stack-usage-fix has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is stringh-work-around-for-increased-stack-usage-fix.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/stringh-work-around-for-increased-stack-usage-fix.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/stringh-work-around-for-increased-stack-usage-fix.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: stringh-work-around-for-increased-stack-usage-fix add comment Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/string.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff -puN include/linux/string.h~stringh-work-around-for-increased-stack-usage-fix include/linux/string.h --- a/include/linux/string.h~stringh-work-around-for-increased-stack-usage-fix +++ a/include/linux/string.h @@ -259,6 +259,8 @@ __FORTIFY_INLINE __kernel_size_t strlen( { __kernel_size_t ret; size_t p_size = __builtin_object_size(p, 0); + + /* Work around gcc excess stack consumption issue */ if (p_size == (size_t)-1 || (__builtin_constant_p(p[p_size - 1]) && p[p_size - 1] == '\0')) return __builtin_strlen(p); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are i-need-old-gcc.patch mm-kmemleakc-make-cond_resched-rate-limiting-more-efficient.patch stringh-work-around-for-increased-stack-usage-fix.patch arm-arch-arm-include-asm-pageh-needs-personalityh.patch mm.patch include-linux-sched-mmh-uninline-mmdrop_async-etc.patch mm-do-not-stall-register_shrinker-fix.patch selftest-vm-move-128tb-mmap-boundary-test-to-generic-directory-fix.patch list_lru-prefetch-neighboring-list-entries-before-acquiring-lock-fix.patch linux-next-rejects.patch linux-next-git-rejects.patch tools-objtool-makefile-dont-assume-sync-checksh-is-executable.patch kernel-forkc-export-kernel_thread-to-modules.patch slab-leaks3-default-y.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html