On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 08:24:03PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > Russell, could you recall what those had been about? I'm not sure if that > had been oopsable that far back (again, oops scenario is userland stack > page getting swapped out before we get to start_thread(), leading to > direct read from an absent page in start_thread() by plain ldr, without > anything in exception table about that insn), but it looks very odd > regardless of that problem.
BTW, arm64 has copied that logics, so it also seems to be unsafe and very odd - there we definitely have only ELF to cope with. arm64 folks Cc'd... -- 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/
