From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hyeoncheol Lee <cheol.lee@lge.com>
Subject: Re: [QUESTION] Kprobes as a module?
Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 16:31:42 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FB2146E.20101@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zk99zwb8.fsf@sejong.aot.lge.com>
On 05/15/2012 04:24 PM, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Probably a dumb question :).
> What prevents the kprobes from being built as a module? We want to use
> the kprobes on our systems, but some guys worried about potential
> security problems. So it'd be great if we can enable/load kprobes as
> needed and then disable/unload after using it. Is it a possible senario?
>
Kconfig prevents that:
config KPROBES
bool "Kprobes"
depends on MODULES
depends on HAVE_KPROBES
select KALLSYMS
so you can have either CONFIG_KPROBES=y or CONFIG_KPROBES=n, but not =m.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-15 8:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-15 8:24 [QUESTION] Kprobes as a module? Namhyung Kim
2012-05-15 8:31 ` Cong Wang [this message]
2012-05-15 8:34 ` Namhyung Kim
2012-05-15 12:18 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2012-05-16 1:44 ` Namhyung Kim
2012-05-15 19:52 ` valdis.kletnieks
2012-05-16 1:48 ` Namhyung Kim
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