Linus Torvalds has honored the request to land the “objtool” stack frame validation support for the Linux 4.6 kernel.
This new Objtool effort provides build-time object file validation for kernel stack frame correctness. This new objtool user-space utility is run at the kernel’s build time to analyze the resulting .o machine code, decode the instruction stream, and checks the interpreted instructions.
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