linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Linux always started with 9600 8N1

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

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Sun, 27 May 2007 14:47:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de
Cc:	sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux always started with 9600 8N1

From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 14:16:22 -0700 (PDT)

> So even writes to so-called 'read-only' sections of the kernel image
> will work and therefore I don't understand what the bug could be other
> than the compiler "optimizing" away the write to the constant string
> in which case the compiler should have warned about it.

I just stared at the drivers/serial/suncore.s assembler a little
bit and this is indeed what appears to be happening, the compiler
is optimizing the stores away completely yet not doing so much
as emitting a warning, how rude :-)

Perhaps there is some warning option that isn't enabled which
would have caught this...

Thanks a lot for your patch, I'll apply it.
-
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/