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 18:08:35 +1000 |
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On Fri, 25 May 2001 08:11:07 +0100, David Welch <david.welch@st-edmund-hall.oxford.ac.uk> wrote: >Why not use a task gate for the double fault handler points to a >per-processor TSS with a seperate stack. This would allow limited recovery >from a kernel stack overlay.
It is far too late by then. struct task is at the bottom of the kernel stack, a stack overflow would corrupt the task data long before the hardware was involved.
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