On 04/03/2017 18:16, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > After pc, the link register is the most likely to legally point into > the kernel .text section so it makes sense imo to decode the address > into a function name plus offset. Does gcc ever use the link register as a general purpose register? (In which case, it is very likely to contain "garbage" as far as function addresses are concerned.) > Educating people about the architecture's calling convention and > associated caveats is not the job of the panic handler. That's a weird statement. Regards. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html