12 Nov
2018
12 Nov
'18
11:49 a.m.
On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 02:17:14PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
4.19-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
From: Will Deacon will.deacon@arm.com
[ Upstream commit 22839869f21ab3850fbbac9b425ccc4c0023926f ]
The sigaltstack(2) system call fails with -ENOMEM if the new alternative signal stack is found to be smaller than SIGMINSTKSZ. On architectures such as arm64, where the native value for SIGMINSTKSZ is larger than the compat value, this can result in an unexpected error being reported to a compat task. See, for example:
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Thanks Greg! If it's not too much effort, could you also take this for 4.9-stable as well please? That would get it into our next Debian stable update too. :-)
Thanks,
Steve
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