From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: "Vamsi Krishna S ." <vamsi@in.ibm.com>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
dprobes <dprobes@www-124.southbury.usf.ibm.com>,
richard <richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com>, tom <hanrahat@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kprobes for 2.5.50-bk2
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 12:18:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021203121858.GC30431@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021203125447.A2951@in.ibm.com>
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 12:54:47PM +0530, Vamsi Krishna S . wrote:
> kprobes allows trapping at almost any kernel address, useful for
> various kernel-hacking tasks, and building on for more
> infrastructure.
This last part just got me thinking.
What stops someone for example using this to implement a binary
only replacement of the TCP/IP stack, or any other part of the
kernel for that matter ?
Dave
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2002-12-03 7:24 [PATCH] kprobes for 2.5.50-bk2 Vamsi Krishna S .
2002-12-03 12:18 ` Dave Jones [this message]
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2002-12-03 12:56 ` Andi Kleen
2002-12-03 13:26 ` Dave Jones
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