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SubjectRe: Wanted: simple, safe x86 stack overflow detection
On Feb 28 2007 15:20, Bill Irwin wrote:
>> I don't know about the rest of the world, but halting the system in the
>> case of memory corruption sounds like an extremely good idea to me.

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:36:47AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Just because a rather "unimportant" driver (e.g. parport) might oops
> thanks to a now-invalid address after memory corruption, I'd still like
> to shutdown the system normally - which should be possible when not
> using parport after said corruption.

Panic on oops/bug is sysctl-activated as things now stand, so you're
all set.


-- wli
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