Subject: Re: [2/3] mm: fix up some user-visible effects of the stack guard
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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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        alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
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On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 14:24 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Still. A doubly-linked list is totally trivial, and I just bet I have
> a bug in there somewhere. But looking at your 2007 patch and mine
> side-by-side, I do think mine is still less scary. 

For sure, and if you need it in a hurry your patch is much saner.

So if you feel like its required for .36 go for it, we can look at
cleaning it up for .37 or somesuch.


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