Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:55:11 +0100 | | From | Ingo Molnar <> | | Subject | Re: Make the 32 bit Frame Pointer backtracer fall back to traditional |
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* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> Subject: Make the 32 bit Frame Pointer backtracer fall back to traditional > From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> > > The 32 bit Frame Pointer backtracer code checks if the EBP is valid to > do a backtrace; however currently on a failure it just gives up and > prints nothing. That's not very nice; we can do better and still print > a decent backtrace. > > This patch changes the backtracer to fall back to the non-framepointer > backtracer if the EBP value isn't within the expected range; so on > weird stack corruption cases we get at least something out...
thanks, applied. Another nice catch!
Ingo
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