From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>,
Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [BUGFIX PATCH] kprobes: Use kernel_text_address() for checking probe address
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:54:23 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090729042423.GA5232@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090728234723.15708.54455.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 07:47:23PM -0400, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Use kernel_text_address() for checking probe address instead of
> __kernel_text_address(), because __kernel_text_address() returns
> !0 for init functions even after relaseing those functions.
> That will hit a BUG() in text_poke().
>
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-29 6:14 UTC|newest]
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2009-07-28 23:47 [BUGFIX PATCH] kprobes: Use kernel_text_address() for checking probe address Masami Hiramatsu
2009-07-29 4:24 ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli [this message]
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