Linux kernel versions 5.10-rc4, 5.4.66, and 5.9.8 are impacted and a patch was merged on December 3 to tackle the bug. Users are urged to update their builds to later versions.

Debugging stack memory problems is limited to a few open-source (e.g., libsafe) and proprietary memory debuggers because program execution needs to be altered or enhanced to detect stack memory ...

The following excerpt is from chapter 3, User-Level Memory Management, of Arnold Robbins’ book Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals, Prentice Hall PTR; (April 12, 2004), used with ...

Linus Torvalds has announced Linux 6.16-rc3 with updates to GPU drivers, virtualization, and Wi-Fi. You can check every ...

The problem is when one memory stack grows too much and gets too close to another program's stack. In 2005, 2010, and again in 2017, researchers have found a way to confuse the operating system ...

If you want to poke around your CPU and memory, for example, there are tons of programs for that under Windows. There are a few for Linux, but they aren’t always as complete or handy.

Android only gives the Linux Terminal app a measly 4GB of RAM, which might not be enough memory for some workloads. Here's a possible fix.