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| author | Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2008-10-23 09:33:01 -0400 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-10-23 16:00:18 +0200 |
| commit | ab9a0918cbf0fa8883301838df8dbc8fc085ff50 (patch) | |
| tree | 2a20ea7410ff8c72d8601a08baf73b743239e9b3 /arch | |
| parent | 76aefee57657428fb77cbd8624119c1a440bee44 (diff) | |
ftrace: use probe_kernel
Andrew Morton suggested using the proper API for reading and writing
kernel areas that might fault.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c index 783455454d7..da4fb0deecf 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c @@ -67,15 +67,14 @@ ftrace_modify_code(unsigned long ip, unsigned char *old_code, * Note: Due to modules and __init, code can * disappear and change, we need to protect against faulting * as well as code changing. We do this by using the - * __copy_*_user functions. + * probe_kernel_* functions. * * No real locking needed, this code is run through * kstop_machine, or before SMP starts. */ /* read the text we want to modify */ - if (__copy_from_user_inatomic(replaced, (char __user *)ip, - MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE)) + if (probe_kernel_read(replaced, (void *)ip, MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE)) return -EFAULT; /* Make sure it is what we expect it to be */ @@ -83,8 +82,7 @@ ftrace_modify_code(unsigned long ip, unsigned char *old_code, return -EINVAL; /* replace the text with the new text */ - if (__copy_to_user_inatomic((char __user *)ip, new_code, - MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE)) + if (probe_kernel_write((void *)ip, new_code, MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE)) return -EPERM; sync_core(); |