Without the ability to atomically write 16 bytes, we can not update the
middle slot of a bundle, slot 1, unless we stop the machine first. This
patch will ensure the ability to robustly insert and remove a kprobe by
refusing to insert a kprobe on slot 1 until a mechanism is in place to
safely handle this case.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Lynch <rusty.lynch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
addr);
return -EINVAL;
}
+
+ if (slot == 1 && bundle_encoding[template][1] != L) {
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "Inserting kprobes on slot #1 "
+ "is not supported\n");
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
return 0;
}