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    x86: be more careful when walking back the frame pointer chain · 808dbbb6
    Linus Torvalds authored
    
    
    When showing the stack backtrace, make sure that we never accept not
    only an unchanging frame pointer, but also a frame pointer that moves
    back down the stack frame.  It must always grow up (toward older stack
    frames).
    
    I doubt this has triggered, but a subtly corrupt stack with extremely
    unlucky contents could cause us to loop forever on a bogus endless frame
    pointer chain.
    
    This review was triggered by much worse problems happening in some of
    the other stack unwinding code.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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