Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932781AbXB1O1O (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:27:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932784AbXB1O1O (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:27:14 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:54075 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932781AbXB1O1N (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:27:13 -0500 Message-ID: <45E5913D.3080505@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:27:09 -0500 From: Chuck Ebbert Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070212) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel CC: Andi Kleen Subject: Wanted: simple, safe x86 stack overflow detection Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 346 Lines: 7 Can we just put a canary in the threadinfo and check it on every task switch? What are the drawbacks? - 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/