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4k/8k stacks

Posted May 15, 2008 11:37 UTC (Thu) by cras (guest, #7000)
In reply to: 4k/8k stacks by corbet
Parent article: The last things through the 2.6.26 merge window

Maybe a small (32bit?) canary at the end of the stack would help a bit? Although if an
overflow 
happens I guess by the time it's noticed the kernel might have crashed already.

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