Re: 2.5.63 accesses below %esp (was: Re: ntfs OOPS (2.5.63))

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> 
> Some data points, in time order.
> 
> SuSE 8.0 	2.95.3-216      no bug yet [1]
> Debian 3.0      2.95.4-14       no bug yet [1]
> Red Hat 7.[23]  2.96-81         no bug yet [2,3]
> Red Hat 7.[23]  2.96-98         bug introduced [2,3]
> Mandrake 8.1    2.96-0.62mdk    bug introduced [4]
> Red Hat 7.[23]  2.96-103        bug fixed  [2,3]
> SuSE 8.0        3.0.4 (SuSE)    bug fixed [1]
> Mandrake 9.1    3.2.2-2mdk      bug fixed [1]

Ok. So the test really is for one particular version only.

That's easy. I'll just add a

	#ifdef CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
	#if __GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ == 96
	#error This compiler is not safe with frame pointers
	#endif
	#endif

to <linux/compiler.h>. Yeah, it will get some fixed compilers too, but 
that's just not worth worrying about - people will just have to turn off 
CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER and be happy.

		Linus