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Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 21:54:37 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack
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On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 12:22:06PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> The only thing I can think of is that the -8 creates a null pointer that
> terminates a stack trace.

Probably not needed anymore as print_context_stack()->valid_stack_ptr()
in dumpstack.c look at the stack boundaries instead of checking for
NULL...

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Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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