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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.5.63 accesses below %esp (was: Re: ntfs OOPS (2.5.63)) 
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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 17:07:13 -0400
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> said:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:

[...]

> > 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.

No need. Just dump some bytes before EIP raw, plus raw bytes + decoded
after EIP. Could be of some help.
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