Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932529AbXB1Xpp (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:45:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932569AbXB1Xpp (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:45:45 -0500 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:27748 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932529AbXB1Xpp (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:45:45 -0500 Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:45:24 -0800 From: Bill Irwin To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Bill Irwin , Andi Kleen , Chuck Ebbert , linux-kernel Subject: Re: Wanted: simple, safe x86 stack overflow detection Message-ID: <20070228234524.GC10643@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: Bill Irwin , Jan Engelhardt , Andi Kleen , Chuck Ebbert , linux-kernel References: <45E5913D.3080505@redhat.com> <20070228204144.GA32316@one.firstfloor.org> <20070228232047.GB10643@holomorphy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 837 Lines: 20 On Feb 28 2007 15:20, Bill Irwin wrote: >> I don't know about the rest of the world, but halting the system in the >> case of memory corruption sounds like an extremely good idea to me. On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:36:47AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Just because a rather "unimportant" driver (e.g. parport) might oops > thanks to a now-invalid address after memory corruption, I'd still like > to shutdown the system normally - which should be possible when not > using parport after said corruption. Panic on oops/bug is sysctl-activated as things now stand, so you're all set. -- wli - 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/