Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 14:46:59 +0200
From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmas
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On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 01:30:45PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Here's my attempt at a backport to 3.2.  This is only tested on
> x86_64 and I think I should introduce local variables for
> vma_start_gap() in a few places.  I had to cherry-pick commit
> 09884964335e "mm: do not grow the stack vma just because of an overrun
> on preceding vma" before this one (which was a clean cherry-pick).

Ben, I can't apply it on top of 3.2.89 + the patch above, do you have
any other patch in your local branch ? For example the patch tries to
modify a hunk starting at line 183 of arch/arm/mm/mmap.c while the one
I'm having here ends at line 159.

Willy