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From: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>
To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: "akpm@osdl.org" <akpm@osdl.org>,
	zach@vmware.com, rohitseth@google.com, JBeulich@novell.com,
	ak@muc.de, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: + espfix-code-cleanup.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:39:32 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44CF4B84.6010409@aknet.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200607312226_MC3-1-C6A9-1757@compuserve.com>

Hi.

Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> we are on a ring0 32-bit stack that's not zero-based.  If an exception
> occurs in that state, UNWIND_ESPFIX_STACK restores the proper kernel
> SS and ESP but on return from the exception nothing restores the espfix
> stack.  I guess this isn't a problem now because exceptions in kernel
> mode are fatal but a kernel debugger might have problems here?
Perhaps you are right, but... unless there is some quick
way to mark that part of code "undebuggable", I'll better
leave that for the debugger maintainers to think about.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-01 12:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-01  2:24 + espfix-code-cleanup.patch added to -mm tree Chuck Ebbert
2006-08-01 12:39 ` Stas Sergeev [this message]
     [not found] <200607300016.k6U0GYu4023664@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
     [not found] ` <44CE766D.6000705@vmware.com>
2006-08-01 12:21   ` Stas Sergeev
2006-08-01 13:38     ` Jan Beulich
2006-08-01 14:37       ` Stas Sergeev
2006-08-01 14:43         ` Jan Beulich
2006-08-01 15:09           ` Stas Sergeev
2006-08-01 21:01     ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-02 17:12       ` Stas Sergeev
2006-08-02 18:30         ` Zachary Amsden
2006-08-02 19:12           ` Stas Sergeev
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-02 19:14 Chuck Ebbert
2006-08-02 19:31 ` Stas Sergeev
2006-08-12  2:27 Chuck Ebbert
2006-08-12 10:35 ` Stas Sergeev

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