Re: + stack-corruption-detector.patch added to -mm tree

From: Matt Mackall
Date: Sun Mar 19 2006 - 13:36:23 EST


On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:16:50PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, akpm@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > - memset(ret, 0, THREAD_SIZE); \
> > + memset(ret, 0x55, THREAD_SIZE); \
>
> Xen uses 0x55 as a poison pattern too. I wonder if we should
> change this one (this one's newer ;)) to something else.

I think we should have a central poison.h file.

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