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Subject: Re: [PATCH] objtool: Detect assembly code falling through to INT3
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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
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On 05/18/18 00:18, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> Ok, this is cool, it addresses the robustness problem that INT3 padding introduced 
> very nicely.
> 
> The concept of built-in kernel tooling working at the machine code level is just 
> so powerful - we should have added our own KCC compiler 20 years ago.
> 

How many times has this been suggested? ;)

	-hpa