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Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 08:14:44 -0700
From: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@...gle.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/4] syscalls: Restore address limit after a syscall

Okay well then people are fine with a BUG_ON approach. I will do a
next iteration tailored to that. I will also try to add the static
inline suggestion from Peter.

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 1:54 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:
> On 03/22/17 13:49, Thomas Garnier wrote:
>>
>> We can default to BUGging. I think my approach was avoiding doing a
>> BUG_ON just to avoid breaking people.
>>
>
> Breaking on a potentially-exploitable bug is a feature.
>
>         -hpa
>
>



-- 
Thomas

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