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

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Sun Mar 19 2006 - 15:04:18 EST


On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 12:26 -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> 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.

sure

but it's not like xen is anywhere near mergable, so xen should change if
anything ;)


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