Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86: fix runtime error in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c

Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-01-28T19:42:54Z

[Ingo Molnar - Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 08:01:49PM +0100]
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| * Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
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| > > Are kobjects protected against accidental copying? If not add &kobj
| > > to the 'magic value' too, and check that - it becomes
| > > copying-resistent that way and has the same cost to check. (which is
| > > negligible anyway)
| >
| > Oh, that's a very cool idea, I like it :)
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| hey, you are welcome :-)
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| [ I guess i should not mention that i've implemented list debugging for
| Linux that checksums the struct list contents and stores the checksum
| in it (offset by a magic value plus to address of the list head), and
| thus protects it against accidental corruption? It was capable of
| reliably detecting mixed up list_add() arguments for example, it
| detected list corruption of _every_ sort, it detected double
| list_del() and list_add() of an already active list member as well. It
| was even capable of detecting SMP races: two parallel unserialized
| list_del()'s on the same list head were detected and warned about as
| well. I guess i should release it one of these days? =B-) ]
|

did miss some words while reading this... ;)
really sorry, drop the mail i sent please

- Cyrill -