Bug#858405: Stable update request: kernel changes to fix PIE with large stack

2017-04-22 Thread Niels Thykier
Ben Hutchings: > On Thu, 2017-03-23 at 17:06 +, James Cowgill wrote: > [...] >> The reason the program and the heap are at these very high addresses is >> that xsltproc is built with PIE and the kernel is treating the >> executable like a mmap and grouping it with all the other libraries. In

Bug#858405: Stable update request: kernel changes to fix PIE with large stack

2017-03-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2017-03-23 at 21:27 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2017-03-23 at 17:06 +, James Cowgill wrote: [...] > > I believe any of the following will fix this (but have not all been tested): > > - Reduce the stack usage in xsltproc (the upstream bug) > > - Upgrade the relevant buildds to