On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 01:34:51PM -0500, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> The existing 'object_is_on_stack()' can probably be used:
>
> if (!object_is_on_stack(current_top_of_stack()))
> panic("...");
>
> Though that function isn't quite accurately named. It should really
> have 'task_stack' in its name, like 'object_is_on_task_stack()'. Or
> even better, something more concise like 'on_task_stack()'.
So I'm obviously missing something here:
object_is_on_stack() uses task_stack_page(current) -> task_struct.stack
while current_stack_pointer() reads %rsp directly.
I'm guessing %rsp and task_struct.stack are in sync?
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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