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Re: [PATCH v15 13/25] x86/reboot: Add ljmp instructions to stacktool whitelist

From "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v15 13/25] x86/reboot: Add ljmp instructions to stacktool whitelist
Date 2016-01-20 07:00 +0100
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On 01/19/16 21:42, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   Apparently(?) xen treats the ud2 special when it's followed by "78 65
>>>>   6e".  This is confusing for stacktool because ud2 is normally a dead
>>>>   end, and it thinks the instructions after it will never run.
>>>>   

Cute.  UD2 followed by three ASCII characters.  I guess that becomes
really fun when using UD2 + a string for error reporting.  Of course, no
software does that...

	-hpa

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Re: [PATCH v15 13/25] x86/reboot: Add ljmp instructions to stacktool  whitelist Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-01-15 11:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v15 13/25] x86/reboot: Add ljmp instructions to stacktool  whitelist Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-01-15 12:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v15 13/25] x86/reboot: Add ljmp instructions to stacktool  whitelist Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-01-15 12:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v15 13/25] x86/reboot: Add ljmp instructions to stacktool  whitelist Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-01-15 12:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v15 13/25] x86/reboot: Add ljmp instructions to stacktool  whitelist Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2016-01-20 06:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v15 13/25] x86/reboot: Add ljmp instructions to stacktool  whitelist "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-01-20 07:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v15 13/25] x86/reboot: Add ljmp instructions to stacktool  whitelist Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> - 2016-01-20 07:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v15 13/25] x86/reboot: Add ljmp instructions to stacktool  whitelist Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-01-20 11:50 +0100

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