From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
davej@codemonkey.org.uk, hpa@zytor.com, bgerst@didntduck.org,
Riley@Williams.Name
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: x86 alignment check bug
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 14:26:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1094649979.11678.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <413E498D.4020807@vmware.com>
On Mer, 2004-09-08 at 00:51, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> Exception reporting for alignment check violations on x86 is broken
> (unfortunately, rather badly, and rather hard to fix). Look at the trap
> function which fills in the si_addr field during an unaligned memory
> access, 2.6.8.1-mm4+, arch/i386/kernel/traps.c, Line 522:
So it fills in a value with random data that should be zero. Ok thats
hardly "badly".
> Clearly, this is not correct. Considering how difficult the fix is (the
> kernel must disassemble the faulting instruction and use register
> information to determine the faulting address)
It would be a nice extension although it would break other OS's if it
used %cr2 for this since they use it for thread id.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-08 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-07 23:51 Zachary Amsden
2004-09-08 0:08 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-08 12:12 ` Gabriel Paubert
2004-09-08 18:26 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-08 13:26 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-09-09 16:29 Petr Vandrovec
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