Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:09:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:09:41 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:65030 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:09:39 -0500 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:18:32 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Szakacsits Szabolcs cc: "Randy.Dunlap" , Subject: Re: 2.5.63 accesses below %esp (was: Re: ntfs OOPS (2.5.63)) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 617 Lines: 21 On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > > If I understand you correctly, no. We have the boundary at EIP. Yes. > Decoding what's before is max 7-8 tries by a human and one can figure > out the real code from the context (with high probability). The point being "with high probability". I'm not adding uncertain instruction decoding to the kernel. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/