From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933547AbYD1R3Z (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:29:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934364AbYD1R2c (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:28:32 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:44400 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935834AbYD1R2a (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:28:30 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:28:12 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Eric Sandeen Cc: Eric Sandeen , linux-kernel Mailing List , Arjan van de Ven , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix max-stack calculators to skip canary Message-ID: <20080428172812.GD23620@elte.hu> References: <480D5F27.1030101@redhat.com> <20080422084404.GA2388@elte.hu> <480E15DC.5040301@sandeen.net> <480E1DED.9040104@sandeen.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <480E1DED.9040104@sandeen.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0046] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Eric Sandeen wrote: > With the canary on the end of the stack, anything which looks for 0 to > mean unused when calculating max stack excursions must skip over this > non-zero magic number. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen thanks Eric, applied. Ingo