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Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 21:54:37 +0100
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack
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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