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From: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
To: karim@opersys.com
Cc: Richard J Moore <richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	SystemTAP <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>,
	Satoshi Oshima <soshima@redhat.com>,
	"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>,
	Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>,
	Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>,
	Michel Dagenais <michel.dagenais@polymtl.ca>,
	William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Does this work? "dcprobes" an x86-hack simple djprobes-equivalent?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:30:32 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <451B33C8.4080107@hitachi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45163D3D.4010108@opersys.com>

Hi Karim,

Thank you for new idea.
I discussed your proposal deeply with my coworkers.

I think your approach has following advantages/disadvantages/problem;
<advantages>
(a) Able to be inserted into the target address of the branch.
(b) So, binary analysis tool becomes simple.
<disadvantages>
(c) Implementation is much complicated.
(d) Highly depend on the x86 arch.
(e) Bigger overhead than djprobe.
(f) There will be side effect(*)
<problem>
(g) User applications can modify LDT. (ex. wine)

I think the dcprobe will work, but, unfortunately, it has
an vulnerability by the problem (g).

(*) In the following code:
---
a=0
do {
...
a++;
}while (a <= 100)
---
In case of inserting dcprobe at the 1st line (a=0),
it will replace 2nd (or more) instructions.
In this case, the fix up routine (based on int3)
will be invoked one hundred times.

Thanks,



-- 
Masami HIRAMATSU
2nd Research Dept.
Hitachi, Ltd., Systems Development Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com



      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-09-28  2:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-24  8:09 Does this work? "dcprobes" an x86-hack simple djprobes-equivalent? Karim Yaghmour
2006-09-25  4:46 ` Karim Yaghmour
2006-09-28  2:30 ` Masami Hiramatsu [this message]

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