Hi!
On 11:58 Thu 24 Apr , Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> as a related thread to the earlier one, is there any protection
> against the kernel stack extending downwards until it overruns the
> thread_info structure? i'm skeptical that there's *any* call chain in
> kernel code that would suck up that much kernel stack, but i'm just
> curious.
Yes, there is a stack overflow detection. You can enable it in
"make menuconfig" under "kernel hacking". Does somebody have an idea about
how this works?
-Michi
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