On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 11:31:40AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 08:05:49PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > Prevent this by checking the validity of the cea_exception_stack base > > address and bailing out if it is zero. > > Could also initialise cea_exception_stack to -1? That would lead to it > being caught by ... > > > end = begin + sizeof(struct cea_exception_stacks); > > /* Bail if @stack is outside the exception stack area. */ > > if (stk < begin || stk >= end) > > this existing check. As to me this would be a hack and fragile :/ In turn the current explicit test Thomas made is a way more readable.