Re: [PATCH] Make LIST_POISON less deadly (v3)

[Avi Kivity]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>   
> >  
> > +config ILLEGAL_POINTER_VALUE
> > +       hex
> > +       default 0 if X86_32
> > +       default 0xffffc10000000000 if X86_64
> >     
>
> Don't make it exactly 0xffffc10000000000 but 0xffffc10000000000 + 0x1000000
> or so, otherwise list_entry() users which subtract offsets would still
> end up in user space and there might be actually something in there
> by default.
>   

The poison code adds a large offset (>1MB) so we're safe here.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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