RE: [PATCH v3 0/3] sched: Always check the integrity of the canary

2014-09-12 Thread David Laight
From: Chuck Ebbert > David Laight wrote: > > > From: Aaron Tomlin > > > Currently in the event of a stack overrun a call to schedule() > > > does not check for this type of corruption. This corruption is > > > often silent and can go unnoticed. However once the corrupted > > > region is

RE: [PATCH v3 0/3] sched: Always check the integrity of the canary

2014-09-12 Thread David Laight
From: Chuck Ebbert David Laight david.lai...@aculab.com wrote: From: Aaron Tomlin Currently in the event of a stack overrun a call to schedule() does not check for this type of corruption. This corruption is often silent and can go unnoticed. However once the corrupted region is

Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] sched: Always check the integrity of the canary

2014-09-11 Thread Aaron Tomlin
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 04:02:45PM +, David Laight wrote: > From: Aaron Tomlin > > Currently in the event of a stack overrun a call to schedule() > > does not check for this type of corruption. This corruption is > > often silent and can go unnoticed. However once the corrupted > > region is

Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] sched: Always check the integrity of the canary

2014-09-11 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 16:02:45 + David Laight wrote: > From: Aaron Tomlin > > Currently in the event of a stack overrun a call to schedule() > > does not check for this type of corruption. This corruption is > > often silent and can go unnoticed. However once the corrupted > > region is

RE: [PATCH v3 0/3] sched: Always check the integrity of the canary

2014-09-11 Thread David Laight
From: Aaron Tomlin > Currently in the event of a stack overrun a call to schedule() > does not check for this type of corruption. This corruption is > often silent and can go unnoticed. However once the corrupted > region is examined at a later stage, the outcome is undefined > and often results

Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] sched: Always check the integrity of the canary

2014-09-11 Thread Aaron Tomlin
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 05:53:03PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > What's with the threading all versions together? Please don't do that -- > also don't post a new version just for this though. Sorry about that. Noted. -- Aaron Tomlin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] sched: Always check the integrity of the canary

2014-09-11 Thread Peter Zijlstra
What's with the threading all versions together? Please don't do that -- also don't post a new version just for this though. -- 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

Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] sched: Always check the integrity of the canary

2014-09-11 Thread Peter Zijlstra
What's with the threading all versions together? Please don't do that -- also don't post a new version just for this though. -- 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

Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] sched: Always check the integrity of the canary

2014-09-11 Thread Aaron Tomlin
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 05:53:03PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: What's with the threading all versions together? Please don't do that -- also don't post a new version just for this though. Sorry about that. Noted. -- Aaron Tomlin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

RE: [PATCH v3 0/3] sched: Always check the integrity of the canary

2014-09-11 Thread David Laight
From: Aaron Tomlin Currently in the event of a stack overrun a call to schedule() does not check for this type of corruption. This corruption is often silent and can go unnoticed. However once the corrupted region is examined at a later stage, the outcome is undefined and often results in a

Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] sched: Always check the integrity of the canary

2014-09-11 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 16:02:45 + David Laight david.lai...@aculab.com wrote: From: Aaron Tomlin Currently in the event of a stack overrun a call to schedule() does not check for this type of corruption. This corruption is often silent and can go unnoticed. However once the corrupted

Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] sched: Always check the integrity of the canary

2014-09-11 Thread Aaron Tomlin
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 04:02:45PM +, David Laight wrote: From: Aaron Tomlin Currently in the event of a stack overrun a call to schedule() does not check for this type of corruption. This corruption is often silent and can go unnoticed. However once the corrupted region is examined