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Re: [PATCH -tip v6 06/22] [BUGFIX] x86: Prohibit probing on memcpy/memset
- From: Masami Hiramatsu <masami dot hiramatsu dot pt at hitachi dot com>
- To: Jovi Zhangwei <jovi dot zhangwei at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel dot org>, linux-arch at vger dot kernel dot org, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth at in dot ibm dot com>, Sandeepa Prabhu <sandeepa dot prabhu at linaro dot org>, x86 at kernel dot org, lkml <linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org>, "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt at goodmis dot org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo at redhat dot com>, systemtap at sourceware dot org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor dot com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix dot de>, "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft dot net>
- Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 11:37:49 +0900
- Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip v6 06/22] [BUGFIX] x86: Prohibit probing on memcpy/memset
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Hi Jovi,
(2013/12/19 18:37), Jovi Zhangwei wrote:
> Hi Masami,
>
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Masami Hiramatsu
> <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> wrote:
>> memcpy/memset functions are fundamental functions and
>> those are involved in kprobe's exception handling.
>> Prohibit probing on them to avoid kernel crash.
>>
> Would you please let me know the LKML link of that bugfix, I cannot
> find it in my LKML fold.
Yeah, that was found in my testing environment.
> No objection on this patch. :) just want to know more, It seems there
> have no problem to probe memcpy in my box, maybe I didn't hit the
> crash code path.
Ah, I see. Originally the problem happened when I put a probe on
__memcpy. And it looks the instances of memcpy and __memcpy are
same on x86-64. Thus I decided to blacklist both. (memset/__memset too)
Have you ever tried to probe __memcpy on your box?
Thank you,
--
Masami HIRAMATSU
IT Management Research Dept. Linux Technology Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com