Re: 2.5.63 accesses below %esp (was: Re: ntfs OOPS (2.5.63))

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 17:18:32 EST


On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
>
> If I understand you correctly, no. We have the boundary at EIP.

Yes.

> Decoding what's before is max 7-8 tries by a human and one can figure
> out the real code from the context (with high probability).

The point being "with high probability".

I'm not adding uncertain instruction decoding to the kernel.

                        Linus

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