Re: [PATCH -tip v5 07/10] kprobes/x86: Support kprobes jump optimization on x86

Masami Hiramatsu
2009-11-25T16:13:57Z

Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Jason Baron wrote:
>> Also, with multiple users we don't want to trample over each others code
>> patching. Thus, if each sub-system could register some type of
>> 'is_reserved()' callback, and then we can call all these call backs from
>> the '__multibyte_poke()' routine before we do any patching to make sure
>> that we aren't trampling on each others code. After a successful
>> patching, each sub-system can update its reserved set of code as
>> appropriate. I can code a prototype here, if this makes sense.
>
> Hmm, we have to implement it carefully, because here kprobes already
> inserted int3 and optprobe rewrites the int3 again. If is_reserved()
> returns 1 and multibyte_poke returns error, we can't optimize it anymore.

IMHO, all text-modifiers except kprobes provide is_reserved() callback
and kprobes cancels probing if its target address is reserved, since
only kprobes changes texts anywhere while others changes texts at
fixed addresses.

Anyway, I think this will be another bugfix for current kprobes/alternative.

Thank you,