[Linux-ia64] Re: kernel update (relative to 2.4.18)

David Mosberger
2002-06-26T17:46:04Z

>>>>> On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 19:30:48 +0200 (DFT), Xavier Bru <Xavier.Bru@bull.net> said:

Xavier> It seems that null pointers passed as argument to syscalls
Xavier> by wrong user code now generate a Oops, and enter kdb if
Xavier> enabled.

Good point. The signal handler path needs to check whether the fault
occurred inside a code range with an associated exception handler and
report it as a user fault, if so. We already do this for the
unaligned handler.

--david