On 24-04-08 17:58, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
as a related thread to the earlier one, is there any protection against the kernel stack extending downwards until it overruns the thread_info structure?
Not really no. There's some debugging infrastructure which can warn but basically, you just overrun, crash, burn.
i'm skeptical that there's *any* call chain in kernel code that would suck up that much kernel stack, but i'm just curious.
You needn't be skeptical. The at the moment still running "4K stacks default on x86" thread on LKML is all about overrrunning that 4K (generally through a combination of XFS and RAID/LVM).
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