Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Mon, 21 Nov 2016 14:25:34 -0800 | Subject | Re: What exactly do 32-bit x86 exceptions push on the stack in the CS slot? |
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On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 2:17 PM, <hpa@zytor.com> wrote: > > Now, segment loads have always ignored the top 32 bits; it's an issue when examined by other kinds of code.
Yes. Particularly ptrace and signal information copying. Need to make sure those things don't look at (or expose) high bits that may be stale stack contents etc.
Linus
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