Rethinking the Stack Clash fix

Posted Jul 15, 2017 0:46 UTC (Sat) by foom (subscriber, #14868)
In reply to: Rethinking the Stack Clash fix by corbet
Parent article: Rethinking the Stack Clash fix

I suspect it's not a massive number of people with large or unlimited stack size, unless some distro has done so by default.

But, once you have increased it for *any* purpose, this kernel change will break programs attempting to choose the right number of args to pass on the command line via calling sysconf. You don't need to be actively requiring or even desiring a large args array...