Re: [PATCH] xfs: prevent stack overflows from page cache allocation

[Ben Myers <bpm@xxxxxxx>]

Hey,

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 08:42:20AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 09:37:51PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > Sure, if you want to. But doing that shouldn't prevent this fix from
> > being committed in the mean time, especially as other filesystems
> > already use this method for avoiding these problems.
> 
> I'd much prefer aiming for the proper fix first.  If for some reason we
> can't get it done in time the workaround can be applied.

Dave probably has a customer waiting on this.  If pulling this in will make a
proper fix more difficult to do I can understand keeping the patch out.
Otherwise, can't we just remove this along with the other filesystems'
equivalent code when the proper fix is committed?

Regards,
        Ben