From: Linus Torvalds
> Sent: 15 August 2018 21:19
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> But if people run things on real machines, then BUG() is absolutely
> the last thing you EVER want to do for "debugging".
I'm not sure you want it on a live system either.
Live systems are where the 'hard' bugs show up.
I've just spent a cou
On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 12:45 PM Kees Cook wrote:
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> I feel like we're talking cross purposes. The BUG() cases were for
> places where we detect that we're executing with an impossible stack
> pointer. It seems like trying to recover from that would just hide the
> corruption for a later time tha
On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 12:04 PM, Linus Torvalds
wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 11:35 AM Kees Cook wrote:
>>
>> I swear I'm doing my best. Are you speaking of
>> stackleak_check_alloca() or stackleak_erase()? These were both
>> discussed on the list, and we weren't able to come up with
>> alter
Hello Linus,
On 15.08.2018 22:04, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 11:35 AM Kees Cook wrote:
>>
>> I swear I'm doing my best. Are you speaking of
>> stackleak_check_alloca() or stackleak_erase()? These were both
>> discussed on the list, and we weren't able to come up with
>> alter
On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 11:35 AM Kees Cook wrote:
>
> I swear I'm doing my best. Are you speaking of
> stackleak_check_alloca() or stackleak_erase()? These were both
> discussed on the list, and we weren't able to come up with
> alternatives: in both cases we're off the stack, and recovery is
> se
On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 9:41 AM, Linus Torvalds
wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 2:43 PM Kees Cook wrote:
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>> Please pull these gcc-plugin changes for v4.19-rc1.
>
> No.
>
> It adds yet another BUG_ON() without having been merged.
>
> I'm not pulling this. Dammit, have you learnt *nothing*?
I
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 2:43 PM Kees Cook wrote:
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> Please pull these gcc-plugin changes for v4.19-rc1.
No.
It adds yet another BUG_ON() without having been merged.
I'm not pulling this. Dammit, have you learnt *nothing*?
I'm, disappointed in the whole feature, but I'm also tired of having
to
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