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| author | Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> | 2007-07-19 01:48:11 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-19 10:04:44 -0700 |
| commit | 3d7e33825d8799115dd2495c9944badd3272a623 (patch) | |
| tree | 869eeefa9dd88c622db199f636cd1785c6099947 /include | |
| parent | 9e367d859297b9377d65574f538cf52730e9eda8 (diff) | |
jprobes: make jprobes a little safer for users
I realise jprobes are a razor-blades-included type of interface, but that
doesn't mean we can't try and make them safer to use. This guy I know once
wrote code like this:
struct jprobe jp = { .kp.symbol_name = "foo", .entry = "jprobe_foo" };
And then his kernel exploded. Oops.
This patch adds an arch hook, arch_deref_entry_point() (I don't like it
either) which takes the void * in a struct jprobe, and gives back the text
address that it represents.
We can then use that in register_jprobe() to check that the entry point we're
passed is actually in the kernel text, rather than just some random value.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/kprobes.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kprobes.h b/include/linux/kprobes.h index bd892850c94..51464d12a4e 100644 --- a/include/linux/kprobes.h +++ b/include/linux/kprobes.h @@ -214,6 +214,7 @@ int longjmp_break_handler(struct kprobe *, struct pt_regs *); int register_jprobe(struct jprobe *p); void unregister_jprobe(struct jprobe *p); void jprobe_return(void); +unsigned long arch_deref_entry_point(void *); int register_kretprobe(struct kretprobe *rp); void unregister_kretprobe(struct kretprobe *rp); |