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From: ravikumar.vallabhu@gmail.com (V.Ravikumar)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Hooking a system call.
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:16:34 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+CftcHAg2Ay7q0JYUwDtkmiA_DOCPL7g3rX2+e_rPJGbuoNxw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGdaadaJerz7PgXt-tzJmpPoK6MdefQVRXxzPyYV_2Q=ffmQ8Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Mulyadi Santosa
<mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi...
>
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:45, V.Ravikumar <ravikumar.vallabhu@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > As part of auditing purpose I need to intercept/hook open/read/write
> system
> > calls.
> >
> > As I was lack of knowledge into kernel development.Could somebody help me
> > out here ?
> > I'm working on RHEL-5 machine with Linux kernel version 2.6.18
> > Thanks & Regards,
> > Ravi
>
> IMHO you better use SystemTap, which is based on Kprobes. It can be
> used to hook into almost every part of kernel system, with very less
> overhead.
>
>
Yes SystemTap is one of the elegant way to hook system calls.

But I need one help while hooking write system call. I need to print the
file name also, but file name is not passed to write system call. How can I
get the file for write (or sys_write ) system call.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-28  3:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-26  4:45 Hooking a system call V.Ravikumar
2012-03-26  7:48 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2012-03-26  8:14   ` V.Ravikumar
2012-03-26  8:27     ` Mulyadi Santosa
2012-03-26 13:04       ` Peter Senna Tschudin
2012-03-26 13:43     ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2012-03-26 15:30     ` Ravishankar
2012-03-26 19:33       ` richard -rw- weinberger
2012-03-26 20:22     ` Fredrick
2012-03-28  3:46   ` V.Ravikumar [this message]
2012-03-28  6:10     ` rohan puri

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