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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Frank Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 5/6] uprobes: add bp_vaddr argument to consumer handler
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:20:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130116162022.GA2026@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50F5AACB.7000303@redhat.com>

On 01/15, Josh Stone wrote:
>
> On 01/12/2013 09:06 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > On 01/10, Josh Stone wrote:
> >> and for uretprobes we want the original return address.
> >
> > Yes, Anton's v2 does this.
> >
> > But. Don't you also need to know the address of function we are going
> > to return from?
> >
> > Probably you do not, uprobe_consumer should know which function (but
> > not vaddr) it probes, but please confirm.
>
> Right, this is fine.

OK, thanks.

> Setting regs->ip to the entry address of the function we just returned
> from would actually be harmful,

Yes, yes, I understand. I meant, ->ret_hander() could have the additional
argument to tell the address of the function.

> Maybe it would be useful if regs->ip reflected the address of the RET
> instruction we just executed, but only if e.g. regs->sp also got rewound
> accordingly.  Since I don't think this is possible, just setting
> regs->ip to the return target is good enough.

Yes, I guess this is not possible.

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-16 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-21 11:16 [RFC PATCH 0/6] uprobes: return probe implementation Anton Arapov
2012-12-21 11:16 ` [RFC PATCH 1/6] uretprobes/x86: hijack return address Anton Arapov
2012-12-22 16:02   ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-12-21 11:16 ` [RFC PATCH 2/6] uretprobes: trampoline implementation Anton Arapov
2012-12-22 16:02   ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-12-21 11:16 ` [RFC PATCH 3/6] uretprobes: return probe entry, prepare uretprobe Anton Arapov
2012-12-22 16:02   ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-12-21 11:16 ` [RFC PATCH 4/6] uretprobes: invoke return probe handlers Anton Arapov
2012-12-22 16:29   ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-12-21 11:16 ` [RFC PATCH 5/6] uprobes: add bp_vaddr argument to consumer handler Anton Arapov
2012-12-22 16:35   ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-12-22 17:13     ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-12-23 15:49       ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-01-08 14:27         ` Anton Arapov
2013-01-10 22:43           ` Josh Stone
2013-01-12 17:06             ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-01-15 19:15               ` Josh Stone
2013-01-16 16:20                 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2012-12-21 11:16 ` [RFC PATCH 6/6] uretprobes: register() and unregister() implementation Anton Arapov
2012-12-22 16:38   ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-12-21 17:37 ` [RFC PATCH 0/6] uprobes: return probe implementation Oleg Nesterov

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