kprobes: Disabling optimized kprobes for entry text section
authorJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:25:13 +0000 (15:25 +0100)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tue, 8 Mar 2011 16:22:12 +0000 (17:22 +0100)
commit2a8247a2600c3e087a568fc68a6ec4eedac27ef1
treedf834946650e392288b93e318377702aaa9fe055
parentea7145477a461e09d8d194cac4b996dc4f449107
kprobes: Disabling optimized kprobes for entry text section

You can crash the kernel (with root/admin privileges) using kprobe tracer by running:

 echo "p system_call_after_swapgs" > ./kprobe_events
 echo 1 > ./events/kprobes/enable

The reason is that at the system_call_after_swapgs label, the
kernel stack is not set up. If optimized kprobes are enabled,
the user space stack is being used in this case (see optimized
kprobe template) and this might result in a crash.

There are several places like this over the entry code
(entry_$BIT). As it seems there's no any reasonable/maintainable
way to disable only those places where the stack is not ready, I
switched off the whole entry code from kprobe optimizing.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
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Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c