Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Mar 2003 20:29:06 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: 2.5.63 accesses below %esp (was: Re: ntfs OOPS (2.5.63)) | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> |
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> At 3:24pm -0800 3/13/03, Linus Torvalds wrote: >>On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Horst von Brand wrote: >>> >>> No need. Just dump some bytes before EIP raw, plus raw bytes + decoded >>> after EIP. Could be of some help. >> >>Alpha does this. Of course, there you don't have any of the partial >> instruction issues. > > If you've got a symbol some reasonable distance before EIP, you could > decode from there. I wrote a little code that does that (using > kallsyms) very crudely in the stack trace in order to give the reader a > hint about stack frames. Go to the prior symbol, which is usually an entry > point, and find the %esp arithmetic. Works pretty well for figuring out the > real call chain.
as long as it's not a data symbol... can you determine that?
~Randy
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