From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261843AbTEHQkK (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 12:40:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261858AbTEHQkK (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 12:40:10 -0400 Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.129]:19698 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261843AbTEHQkI (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 12:40:08 -0400 Message-ID: <3EBA8B04.5010704@us.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 09:51:16 -0700 From: Dave Hansen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Engel?= CC: Jonathan Lundell , root@chaos.analogic.com, Linux kernel Subject: Re: top stack (l)users for 2.5.69 References: <20030507132024.GB18177@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <20030507135657.GC18177@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <3EB957FA.4080900@us.ibm.com> <20030507200647.GB3166@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <3EB96916.7080900@us.ibm.com> <20030508084101.GE1469@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jörn Engel wrote: > If I read this correctly, your patch doesn't catch everything, if > there are functions remaining that use stack frames >0x200ul. Ok, > tell me I'm wrong and should go through the assembler code first. If any function is ever called with < 0x200 bytes of space left on the stack, it considers it an overflow. -- Dave Hansen haveblue@us.ibm.com