On 11.12.2024 12:05, Alessandro Zucchelli wrote: > Rule 11.1 states as following: "Conversions shall not be performed > between a pointer to a function and any other type". > > In "xen/common/bug.c", in order to get additional debug information, > pointer "bug_fn_t *fn" in the data section is converted to a function > pointer, which is then used to get such information.
If the pointer converted pointed into the data section, it would fault upon being used to call what it points to, for the lack of execute permissions there. The change itself looks okay to me, but the description imo needs updating, to be as precise as possible. Jan
