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Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack

From Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack
Date 2016-03-03 22:00 +0100
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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...

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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[RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-03-02 12:30 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-03-02 17:20 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@nextfour.com> - 2016-03-02 17:40 +0100
      Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-03-02 18:00 +0100
        Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@nextfour.com> - 2016-03-02 18:50 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@nextfour.com> - 2016-03-02 17:20 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-03-02 17:30 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-03-02 19:00 +0100
      Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-03-02 19:20 +0100
        Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-03-02 19:30 +0100
        Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-03-02 19:40 +0100
          Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-03-02 21:00 +0100
            Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-03-02 21:50 +0100
            Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-03-02 22:40 +0100
              Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-03-02 22:50 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-03-02 23:00 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-03-02 23:20 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-03-02 23:30 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-03-02 23:40 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-03-02 23:50 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> - 2016-03-03 01:20 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> - 2016-03-03 02:10 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> - 2016-03-03 04:00 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-03-03 13:30 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-03-03 16:30 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-03-03 17:40 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-03-03 21:30 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-03-03 22:00 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-03-03 22:30 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-03-03 22:40 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> - 2016-03-04 02:20 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> - 2016-03-04 03:30 +0100
                Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-03-02 23:20 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Make sure verify_cpu has a good stack Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> - 2016-03-02 17:30 +0100

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