Re: [PATCH] Port SquashFS to 2.6

From: John Bradford (john@grabjohn.com)
Date: Tue Jul 22 2003 - 05:36:07 EST


> If you look closely at the kernel, there is currently no way of
> telling whether it contains stack overflows waiting to happen, or not.

It would be an interesting experiment to deliberately make the kernel
stack smaller, and see what happens. If no problems seem apparent
with a reduced kernel stack, it gives more weight to the argument that
the default one is OK.

John.
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