On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 04:49:18PM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 05:00:12AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > 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? > > It looks like even 2.6.12 has the same behaviour. We were just unlucky that > in this particular case the ld.so.cache file had a certain layout that this > was immediatly triggered when "ulimit -s unlimited" was set. > > However before 3.7 it was very unlikely that we would hit the bug. Only since > we switched address spaces on s390 with 3d5787c9 it became likely. So I'd > say only 3.7 and 3.8 are relevant. Ok, as 3.7 is now end-of-life, I'll just queue it up for the next 3.8-stable release. 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