On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 6:33 AM, H. Peter Anvin <h...@linux.intel.com> wrote: > On 01/26/2014 02:16 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote: >> >> Currently we print the kernel offset only upon a panic() using the >> panic notifier list. >> This way it does not show up if the kernel hits a BUG() in process >> context or something less critical. >> Wouldn't make more sense to report the offset in every dump_stack() or >> show_regs() call? > > No, because that information is available to user space unless we panic.
Didn't you mean non-root? I thought one has to set dmesg_restrict anyways if kASLR is used. And isn't the offset available to perf too? Of course only for root, but still user space. -- Thanks, //richard -- 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/