Bug#1056357: general: on hppa, command line of any program invocation is limited to less than 3544 bytes

[Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>]

Control: reassign -1 src:linux

On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 11:39:03AM +0100, Helge Deller wrote:
> On 11/21/23 23:38, Zebediah Beck wrote:
> > Excellent, please explain the bug in question in further detail as this is interesting
> 
> There is not much to say about it.
> The main challenge on parisc is, that it's the only platform left where
> the stack grows upwards. So, the kernel has special handling when allocating
> space for the (big) environment. Since both stack and heap grow upward, it's
> not easy to find a suitable place where to put a large environment.
> But, I don't think this is the specific problem here.
> 
> The real problem is probably that there were many patches not in 6.3
> (but partly added at later stages in -stable series), e.g.:
> - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6f9e98849edaa8aefc4030ff3500e41556e83ff7
> - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c2ff2b736c41cc63bb0aaec85cccfead9fbcfe92
> - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a0f4b7879f2e14986200747d1b545e5daac8c624
> - https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5f74f820f6fc844b95f9e5e406e0a07d97510420  (kernel 6.6 and 6.7-rc1)
> 
> As Bruno said, Kernel 6.3.0-2-parisc fails the testcase, while Kernel 6.3.7-t2-parisc
> works ok.

Given this appears to be a kernel problem, I'm reassigning this bug 
to src:linux.

I'd appreciate it if you could close the bug, if you deem it solved.

Chris