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Message-ID: <20080321115029.GB25225@elte.hu>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:50:29 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
Cc: mingo@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Arch: x86_32, fix fault_msg nul termination
* Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com> wrote:
> The fault_msg text is not explictly nul terminated now in startup
> assembly. Do so by converting .ascii to .asciz.
thanks Jiri, applied.
> fault_msg:
> - .ascii \
> + .asciz \
> /* fault info: */ "BUG: Int %d: CR2 %p\n" \
> /* pusha regs: */ " EDI %p ESI %p EBP %p ESP %p\n" \
> " EBX %p EDX %p ECX %p EAX %p\n" \
i guess in practice we were saved by a NIL following this string, but
there's no guarantee indeed.
Ingo
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