[PATCH 0/2] exec: more excessive argument size fixes for2.6.37/stable

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Tue Nov 30 2010 - 15:02:33 EST


On 11/29, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> I was going to export get_arg_page/acct_arg_size, but it is so
> ugly.

But I think this is the only option for 2.6.37/stable.

So. I am sending 2 patches, hopefully they fix the problems
and there are simple enough for 2.6.27/stable.

> I'll try to find the way to unify copy_strings and
> compat_copy_strings, not sure it is possible to do cleanly.

I'll send the cleanups which unify compat/non-compat code on
top of these fixes, this is not stable material.

Oleg.

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