It's not going to work, because the scheduler will explode if we try to schedule when running on an IST stack or similar. This will matter when we let kernel stack overflows (which are #DF) call die(). Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c index d6209f3a69cb..70d5aae8b8f7 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack.c @@ -245,6 +245,9 @@ void oops_end(unsigned long flags, struct pt_regs *regs, int signr) return; if (in_interrupt()) panic("Fatal exception in interrupt"); + if (((current_stack_pointer() ^ (current_top_of_stack() - 1)) + & ~(THREAD_SIZE - 1)) != 0) + panic("Fatal exception on special stack"); if (panic_on_oops) panic("Fatal exception"); do_exit(signr); -- 2.5.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html