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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>,
	Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uprobe: Add uprobe_pre/post_sstep_notifier to NOKPROBE_SYMBOL
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 22:30:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160802203035.GA8335@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <66dfa2cb82fc306d42e51adf0f5d819b4695644e.1470120173.git.panand@redhat.com>

On 08/02, Pratyush Anand wrote:
>
> uprobe_pre_sstep_notifier and uprobe_post_sstep_notifier are called from
> debug exception handler, so blacklist them for kprobing.

Let me add kprobes maintainers, I am a bit confused...

> @@ -1997,6 +1998,7 @@ int uprobe_pre_sstep_notifier(struct pt_regs *regs)
>  	set_thread_flag(TIF_UPROBE);
>  	return 1;
>  }
> +NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(uprobe_pre_sstep_notifier);
>
>  /*
>   * uprobe_post_sstep_notifier gets called in interrupt context as part of notifier
> @@ -2014,6 +2016,7 @@ int uprobe_post_sstep_notifier(struct pt_regs *regs)
>  	set_thread_flag(TIF_UPROBE);
>  	return 1;
>  }
> +NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(uprobe_post_sstep_notifier);

but if we need to blacklist uprobe_pre/post_sstep_notifier then we
also need to blacklist their caller, arch_uprobe_exception_notify() ?

and every .notifier_call used in register_die_notifier() ?

Oleg.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-08-02 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-02  6:44 [PATCH] uprobe: Add uprobe_pre/post_sstep_notifier to NOKPROBE_SYMBOL Pratyush Anand
2016-08-02 15:45 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2016-08-03  4:24   ` Pratyush Anand
2016-08-03 10:35     ` Pratyush Anand
2016-08-03 14:31       ` Masami Hiramatsu
2016-08-02 20:30 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2016-08-03  4:12   ` Pratyush Anand

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