Re: [PATCH] arm: mm: Poison freed init memory

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > Ok it seems that 0xcc was chosen by Pavel since it's a breakpoint
> > instruction (sorry for not noticing that earlier [1]).
> 
> It may be on x86, but on ARM:
> 
>    0:   cccccccc        stclgt  12, cr12, [ip], {204}
> 
> That's a co-processor #12 instruction which will only be executed of
> the processor condition codes satisfy 'gt'.
> 
> > There was some discussion about handling initdata with Pavel's patch
> > but it seems that nothing came of it?
> 
> I'm not sure who this Pavel is who you keep referring to - the message
> you link to is a discussion between William Irvin and hpa.

I was surprised, too, but it looks like I was the one who ported patch
from x86-64.

I'm not really sure if initdata poisoning happened... it is too long
ago.

								Pavel
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