Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:52:42 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch 13/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Consistently wrap paravirt ops callsites to make them patchable |
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > No, me and Jan fixed all reported bugs as far as I know.
No you did not. You didn't fix the ones I reported. Which is why it got removed, and will not get added back until there is another maintainer.
The ones I reported were all about trusting the stack contents implicitly, and assuming that the unwind info was there and valid. Using things like "__get_user()" didn't fix it, because if a WARN_ON() happened while we held the mm semaphore and the unwind info was bogus, it would take a page-fault and deadlock.
Those kinds of things are not acceptable for debugging output. If I cannot use WARN_ON() because I hold the MM lock and I'm afraid there might be kernel corruption, then something is *wrong*!
And I told you guys this. Over *months*. And you ignored me. You told me everything was fine. Each time, somebody else ended up reporting a hang where the unwinder was at fault. And since I couldn't trust the maintainers to fix it, removing the broken feature that only caused more problems than it fixed was the only option.
And you clearly *still* haven't accepted the fact that the code was buggy.
Does anybody wonder why I wouldn't merge it back?
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