* Re: + stack-corruption-detector.patch added to -mm tree [not found] <200603082041.k28Kf7H1027435@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> @ 2006-03-09 3:16 ` Rik van Riel 2006-03-19 18:26 ` Matt Mackall 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Rik van Riel @ 2006-03-09 3:16 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-kernel; +Cc: mingo, Andrew Morton On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, akpm@osdl.org wrote: > - memset(ret, 0, THREAD_SIZE); \ > + memset(ret, 0x55, THREAD_SIZE); \ Xen uses 0x55 as a poison pattern too. I wonder if we should change this one (this one's newer ;)) to something else. -- All Rights Reversed ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: + stack-corruption-detector.patch added to -mm tree 2006-03-09 3:16 ` + stack-corruption-detector.patch added to -mm tree Rik van Riel @ 2006-03-19 18:26 ` Matt Mackall 2006-03-19 20:06 ` Arjan van de Ven 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Matt Mackall @ 2006-03-19 18:26 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Rik van Riel; +Cc: linux-kernel, mingo, Andrew Morton On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:16:50PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, akpm@osdl.org wrote: > > > - memset(ret, 0, THREAD_SIZE); \ > > + memset(ret, 0x55, THREAD_SIZE); \ > > Xen uses 0x55 as a poison pattern too. I wonder if we should > change this one (this one's newer ;)) to something else. I think we should have a central poison.h file. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: + stack-corruption-detector.patch added to -mm tree 2006-03-19 18:26 ` Matt Mackall @ 2006-03-19 20:06 ` Arjan van de Ven 2006-03-19 20:52 ` Matt Mackall 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Arjan van de Ven @ 2006-03-19 20:06 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Matt Mackall; +Cc: Rik van Riel, linux-kernel, mingo, Andrew Morton On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 12:26 -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:16:50PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, akpm@osdl.org wrote: > > > > > - memset(ret, 0, THREAD_SIZE); \ > > > + memset(ret, 0x55, THREAD_SIZE); \ > > > > Xen uses 0x55 as a poison pattern too. I wonder if we should > > change this one (this one's newer ;)) to something else. > > I think we should have a central poison.h file. sure but it's not like xen is anywhere near mergable, so xen should change if anything ;) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: + stack-corruption-detector.patch added to -mm tree 2006-03-19 20:06 ` Arjan van de Ven @ 2006-03-19 20:52 ` Matt Mackall 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Matt Mackall @ 2006-03-19 20:52 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Arjan van de Ven; +Cc: Rik van Riel, linux-kernel, mingo, Andrew Morton On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 09:06:46PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 12:26 -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:16:50PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, akpm@osdl.org wrote: > > > > > > > - memset(ret, 0, THREAD_SIZE); \ > > > > + memset(ret, 0x55, THREAD_SIZE); \ > > > > > > Xen uses 0x55 as a poison pattern too. I wonder if we should > > > change this one (this one's newer ;)) to something else. > > > > I think we should have a central poison.h file. > > sure > > but it's not like xen is anywhere near mergable, so xen should change if > anything ;) Well Xen is a separate problem. But figuring out what poison value came from where and which values are already used is getting to be an ugly problem for the kernel itself. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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