Re: [PATCH -tip RFC v2 01/22] kprobes: Prohibit probing on .entry.text code

2013-11-15 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 04:53:18 + > Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > >> .entry.text is a code area which is used for interrupt/syscall >> entries, and there are many sensitive codes. >> Thus, it is better to prohibit probing on all of such codes

Re: [PATCH -tip RFC v2 01/22] kprobes: Prohibit probing on .entry.text code

2013-11-15 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 04:53:18 + Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > .entry.text is a code area which is used for interrupt/syscall > entries, and there are many sensitive codes. > Thus, it is better to prohibit probing on all of such codes > instead of a part of that. > Since some symbols are already re

[PATCH -tip RFC v2 01/22] kprobes: Prohibit probing on .entry.text code

2013-11-14 Thread Masami Hiramatsu
.entry.text is a code area which is used for interrupt/syscall entries, and there are many sensitive codes. Thus, it is better to prohibit probing on all of such codes instead of a part of that. Since some symbols are already registered on kprobe blacklist, this also removes them from the blacklist