From: hch@infradead.org (Christoph Hellwig)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] tracing/syscalls: ignore numbers outside NR_syscalls' range
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 01:26:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141030082606.GA7945@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1414620418-29472-1-git-send-email-rabin@rab.in>
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:06:58PM +0100, Rabin Vincent wrote:
> ARM has some private syscalls (for example, set_tls(2)) which lie
> outside the range of NR_syscalls. If any of these are called while
> syscall tracing is being performed, out-of-bounds array access will
> occur in the ftrace and perf sys_{enter,exit} handlers.
While this patch looks like good caution, having syscalls outside of
NR_syscalls seems like a receipe for a disaster. Can you try to fix
that issue as ell, please?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-30 8:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-29 22:06 [PATCH] tracing/syscalls: ignore numbers outside NR_syscalls' range Rabin Vincent
2014-10-30 8:26 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2014-10-30 10:18 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-10-30 11:10 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-10-30 11:14 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-10-30 11:30 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-10-30 11:35 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-11-03 17:08 ` Nathan Lynch
2014-11-03 17:58 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-10-30 11:52 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-10-30 11:55 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-10-31 10:01 ` Ingo Molnar
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