From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 10:33:41 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: pivot_root.2: EXAMPLE: allocate stack using mmap() MAP_STACK rather than malloc()
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pivot_root.2: EXAMPLE: allocate stack using mmap() MAP_STACK rather than malloc()

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man2/pivot_root.2 b/man2/pivot_root.2
index 93b2c029c6..e84417d1ca 100644
--- a/man2/pivot_root.2
+++ b/man2/pivot_root.2
@@ -325,6 +325,7 @@ hello world
 #include <sys/mount.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 #include <limits.h>
+#include <sys/mman.h>
 
 #define errExit(msg)    do { perror(msg); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); \e
                         } while (0)
@@ -392,9 +393,10 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
     /* Create a child process in a new mount namespace */
 
-    char *stack = malloc(STACK_SIZE);
-    if (stack == NULL)
-        errExit("malloc");
+    char *stack = mmap(NULL, STACK_SIZE, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,
+                       MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_STACK, \-1, 0);
+    if (stack == MAP_FAILED)
+        errExit("mmap");
 
     if (clone(child, stack + STACK_SIZE,
                 CLONE_NEWNS | SIGCHLD, &argv[1]) == \-1)