From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
ananth@in.ibm.com, prasanna@in.ibm.com,
anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com,
Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>,
davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][kprobes] support kretprobe-blacklist
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:31:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070827133154.GA22322@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46C5FA48.2050308@redhat.com>
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 03:43:04PM -0400, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> This patch introduces architecture dependent kretprobe
> blacklists to prohibit users from inserting return
> probes on the function in which kprobes can be inserted
> but kretprobes can not.
I don't like this at all. If people want to shoot themselves into
their own foot using kernel modules they have an unlimited number
of ways to do this, and even more with kprobes, so there's no point
in making it a little harder for some cases.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-27 13:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-17 19:43 [PATCH][kprobes] support kretprobe-blacklist Masami Hiramatsu
2007-08-17 22:03 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-17 23:08 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2007-08-21 21:01 ` [PATCH][kprobes] support kretprobe-blacklist take2 Masami Hiramatsu
2007-08-23 4:12 ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2007-08-27 13:31 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-08-27 15:49 ` [PATCH][kprobes] support kretprobe-blacklist Masami Hiramatsu
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