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Re: kprobe fault handling
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 16:45 -0500, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> hunt wrote:
>
> > [...]
> > function copy_more:long(addr:long)
> > %{
> > THIS->__retvalue = _stp_copy_from_user (buf,
> > (char __user *)(long)THIS->addr, 2048);
> > %}
> > [...]
>
> As mentioned several times, this runtime routine "_stp_copy_from_user"
> is not safe, and should be rewritten or removed.
Yes, you always say this. Please tell us why that is so.