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Re: segment registers in struct trapframe



On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 06:29:44PM +0100, Wolfgang Solfrank wrote:
> 
> Does this mean, we are passing uninitialized memory to userland, i.e.
> some unknwon values from the kernel (or from another user process)?
> IMHO, that's in an urgent need for a fix.

In practise the values likely to be returned come from very low down
on the processes kernel stack - so are extremely unlikly to contain
anything important.

        David

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