On 08/07, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > It's a security issue: setting debug traps on kernel code/data > addresses can not only leak information, it can cause serious trouble > (taking a debug trap on the first instruction of an NMI handler etc) > including kernel stack corruption...
I guess Grazvydas only meant the "unnecessary" align/len/type checks. But you are right of course. Oleg. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
