| lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
|
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Message-ID: <20070222073930.GB4113@slug> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:39:30 +0000 From: Frederik Deweerdt <deweerdt@...e.fr> To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> Cc: Jose Goncalves <jose.goncalves@...v.pt>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Serial related oops On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 09:57:50PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Russell King wrote: > > >Plainly, %ebx changed across the call to serial_in() at c01c0f7b. > >First thing to notice is this violates the C code - "up" can not > >change. > >Now let's look at serial_in: > >c01bfa70: 55 push %ebp > >c01bfa71: 89 e5 mov %esp,%ebp > >c01bfa73: 53 push %ebx > >... > >c01bfab7: 5b pop %ebx > >c01bfab8: 5d pop %ebp > >c01bfab9: c3 ret > >This code tells the CPU to preserves %ebx and %ebp. But we know %ebx > >_wasn't_ preserved. Ergo, your CPU is plainly not doing what the code > >told it to do. > > ... assuming nothing else clobbered the stack slot (which would be a compiler > error, or a wild pointer.) > > Got a disassembly of the whole function? > Jose posted it higher in the thread: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/21/139 Regards, Frederik - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists