RE: [PATCH v3 0/3] sched: Always check the integrity of the canary

2014-09-12 Thread David Laight
From: Chuck Ebbert > David Laight wrote: > > > From: Aaron Tomlin > > > Currently in the event of a stack overrun a call to schedule() > > > does not check for this type of corruption. This corruption is > > > often silent and can go unnoticed. However once the corrupted > > > region is examined

Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] sched: Always check the integrity of the canary

2014-09-11 Thread Aaron Tomlin
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 04:02:45PM +, David Laight wrote: > From: Aaron Tomlin > > Currently in the event of a stack overrun a call to schedule() > > does not check for this type of corruption. This corruption is > > often silent and can go unnoticed. However once the corrupted > > region is ex

Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] sched: Always check the integrity of the canary

2014-09-11 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 16:02:45 + David Laight wrote: > From: Aaron Tomlin > > Currently in the event of a stack overrun a call to schedule() > > does not check for this type of corruption. This corruption is > > often silent and can go unnoticed. However once the corrupted > > region is examine

RE: [PATCH v3 0/3] sched: Always check the integrity of the canary

2014-09-11 Thread David Laight
From: Aaron Tomlin > Currently in the event of a stack overrun a call to schedule() > does not check for this type of corruption. This corruption is > often silent and can go unnoticed. However once the corrupted > region is examined at a later stage, the outcome is undefined > and often results in

Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] sched: Always check the integrity of the canary

2014-09-11 Thread Aaron Tomlin
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 05:53:03PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > What's with the threading all versions together? Please don't do that -- > also don't post a new version just for this though. Sorry about that. Noted. -- Aaron Tomlin ___ Linuxppc-de

Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] sched: Always check the integrity of the canary

2014-09-11 Thread Peter Zijlstra
What's with the threading all versions together? Please don't do that -- also don't post a new version just for this though. ___ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev