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    mm: Don't count the stack guard page towards RLIMIT_STACK · 690eac53
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Commit fee7e49d
    
     ("mm: propagate error from stack expansion even for
    guard page") made sure that we return the error properly for stack
    growth conditions.  It also theorized that counting the guard page
    towards the stack limit might break something, but also said "Let's see
    if anybody notices".
    
    Somebody did notice.  Apparently android-x86 sets the stack limit very
    close to the limit indeed, and including the guard page in the rlimit
    check causes the android 'zygote' process problems.
    
    So this adds the (fairly trivial) code to make the stack rlimit check be
    against the actual real stack size, rather than the size of the vma that
    includes the guard page.
    
    Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarChih-Wei Huang <cwhuang@android-x86.org>
    Cc: Jay Foad <jay.foad@gmail.com>
    Cc: stable@kernel.org  # to match back-porting of fee7e49d
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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