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SubjectRe: [git pull] core, x86: make LIST_POISON less deadly
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
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> Why not pick something that is *guaranteed* to fault? The above looks like
> any future setup that supports 41 bits of addressing and has extended the
> page tables (yes, it will happen eventually) will find that to be a
> perfectly valid address?

When that happens then it will be either unmapped (and fault anyways)
or the kernel has to be changed to 5 level page tables first and then
surely the poison value could change too.

-Andi


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