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From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] x86/dumpstack: Cleanups and user opcode bytes Code: section
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 13:29:56 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180220192956.si2a6m3ckskexvte@treble> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrXgT0rLLziiOnv51tZioJ2bNKc1eNniu46dDOvW5=PxYQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 07:14:00PM +0000, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 8:28 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
> > From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > so I've been thinking about doing this for a while now: be able to dump
> > the opcode bytes around the user rIP just like we do for kernel faults.
> >
> > Why?
> >
> > See patch 5's commit message. That's why I've marked it RFC.
> >
> > The rest is cleanups: we're copying the opcodes byte-by-byte and that's
> > just wasteful.
> 
> Maybe this series already has this side-effect, but I'd really love to
> see oopses show the code bytes for each kernel entry, not just the
> innermode one.  We already dump full regs including RIP -- adding
> Code: should be easy and would be very helpful.

Just to clarify, I think you want to show the Code: around regs->ip
every time we show the registers?

-- 
Josh

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-20 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-19 20:28 [PATCH 0/5] x86/dumpstack: Cleanups and user opcode bytes Code: section Borislav Petkov
2018-02-19 20:28 ` [PATCH 1/5] x86/dumpstack: Unify show_regs() Borislav Petkov
2018-02-19 20:28 ` [PATCH 2/5] x86/dumpstack: Carve out Code: dumping into a function Borislav Petkov
2018-02-19 20:28 ` [PATCH 3/5] x86/dumpstack: Improve opcodes dumping in the Code: section Borislav Petkov
2018-02-19 22:02   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-02-19 20:28 ` [PATCH 4/5] x86/dumpstack: Add loglevel argument to show_opcodes() Borislav Petkov
2018-02-19 20:28 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] x86/fault: Dump user opcode bytes on fatal faults Borislav Petkov
2018-02-20 19:14 ` [PATCH 0/5] x86/dumpstack: Cleanups and user opcode bytes Code: section Andy Lutomirski
2018-02-20 19:29   ` Josh Poimboeuf [this message]
2018-02-20 20:44     ` Borislav Petkov
2018-02-21  9:15       ` Ingo Molnar
2018-02-21 17:54         ` Borislav Petkov
2018-02-21 21:39           ` Linus Torvalds
2018-02-22  9:23             ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-22 18:42               ` Linus Torvalds
2018-02-23 15:22                 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2018-02-23 20:12                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-02-25 11:35             ` Borislav Petkov

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