Messages in this thread |  | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: [CHECKER] large stack variables (>=1K) in 2.4.4 and 2.4.4-ac8 | Date | Fri, 25 May 2001 18:25:57 +1000 |
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On Fri, 25 May 2001 10:14:57 +0200, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote: >On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 03:20:20PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote: >> You cannot recover from a kernel stack overflow even with kdb. The >> exception handler and kdb use the stack that just overflowed. > >Hmm, I thought it used an own stack using an appropiate gate. >At least on x86-64 I implemented it this way using a static 4K array.
Nothing in arch/i386/kernel/traps.c uses a task gate, they are all interrupt, trap, system or call gates. I guarantee that kdb on ix86 and ia64 uses the same kernel stack as the failing task, the starting point for the kdb backtrace is itself and it does not follow segment switches.
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