Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:07:10 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.63 accesses below %esp (was: Re: ntfs OOPS (2.5.63)) |
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On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > > I'm not adding uncertain instruction decoding to the kernel. > > From some point of you I understand. But it's not uncertain. The > correct one is 100% included.
Sorry, there is _no_ way you can do it correctly.
The preceding bytes may not even be code - they can be constant data in the code segment. Trying to decode them as code just generates garbage in those circumstances.
Linus
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