On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 01:42:16PM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 08:39:20AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 3:15 AM, Heiko Carstens > > <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > Tested with 64 bit kernel with 64 bit and 31 bit mode user space as well as > > > with 31 bit kernel and 31 bit user space. Each with legacy and flexible > > > mmap layout. > > > The bug is fixed and everything else still seems to work. Thanks! > > > > > > Tested-By: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Ok, committed. > > > > I'm not marking it for stable, because it doesn't seem to matter all > > that much, but if there was some application that actually broke and > > made you notice it that way (as opposed to you just noticing the odd > > memory map), you might want to inform the stable team about commit > > 09884964335e. > > It was indeed a bug that caused applications to break. > So I'd like to see your patch 09884964335e "mm: do not grow the stack > vma just because of an overrun on preceding vma" in stable (stable team > added to To: list). Ok, how far back does the bug go? Just to 3.8 or earlier? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html