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 - 20:07:10 EST


On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> > I'm not adding uncertain instruction decoding to the kernel.
>
> From some point of you I understand. But it's not uncertain. The
> correct one is 100% included.

Sorry, there is _no_ way you can do it correctly.

The preceding bytes may not even be code - they can be constant data in
the code segment. Trying to decode them as code just generates garbage in
those circumstances.

                Linus

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