linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH] lib: stackinit: Adjust target string to 8 bytes for m68k

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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 23:56:23 +0100
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,  Guenter Roeck
 <linux@...ck-us.net>,  linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
  linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: stackinit: Adjust target string to 8 bytes for m68k

On Feb 27 2024, Kees Cook wrote:

> For reasons I cannot understand, m68k moves the start of the stack frame
> for consecutive calls to the same function

It's called optimisation.

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