Re: [Patch] [BZ 13761] Fix another unbound alloca

[Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>]

On 11/29/2012 09:08 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>
> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:29:23 -0700
>
> > On 11/29/2012 12:05 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > > On 11/28/2012 11:12 PM, Jeff Law wrote:
> > > > To recap (from the BZ):
> > > >
> > > > nss_compat allocates buffer space on stack using alloca (and
> > > > extend_alloca) for initgroup and keeps extending it to fit in larger
> > > > lines. This breaks for cases where the number of members in a gorup
> > > > are very large, causing the alloca reference to go beyond thread stack
> > > > boundary.  Siddhesh partially fixed this problem a while back, this
> > > > patch completes the fix.
> > >
> > > This looks fine to me,
> > Thanks.  David's call as to whether or not to pull this into 2.17;
> > barring an explicit OK from him I'll hold off installing until after
> > the tree is unfrozen.
>
> I'm fine with this going in, please commit it.
Thanks.  Done.

jeff