andrea@suse.de said:
> My fix for the race doesn't drop the usability of GROWSDOWN that could
> otherwise break userspace programs. I guess at least uml uses
> growsdown vma file backed. Jeff?
No. In neither the host kernel or UML is there a vma that's file backed and
growsdown.
UML process stacks are marked growsdown in UML and are file backed on the host,
but that's not the same thing.
Jeff
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