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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>2007-10-16 01:27:49 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-16 09:43:10 -0700
commitf438d914b220051d4cbc65cbc5d98e163c85c93b (patch)
tree75e7fda155a8494595f6ae0539bbb64ef98230f6 /arch/x86/kernel/kprobes_32.c
parent49dce689ad4ef0fd1f970ef762168e4bd46f69a3 (diff)
kprobes: support kretprobe blacklist
Introduce architecture dependent kretprobe blacklists to prohibit users from inserting return probes on the function in which kprobes can be inserted but kretprobes can not. This patch also removes "__kprobes" mark from "__switch_to" on x86_64 and registers "__switch_to" to the blacklist on x86-64, because that mark is to prohibit user from inserting only kretprobe. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/kprobes_32.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/kprobes_32.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes_32.c
index 06b86e5617f..90f778c04b3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes_32.c
@@ -41,6 +41,13 @@ void jprobe_return_end(void);
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kprobe *, current_kprobe) = NULL;
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kprobe_ctlblk, kprobe_ctlblk);
+struct kretprobe_blackpoint kretprobe_blacklist[] = {
+ {"__switch_to", }, /* This function switches only current task, but
+ doesn't switch kernel stack.*/
+ {NULL, NULL} /* Terminator */
+};
+const int kretprobe_blacklist_size = ARRAY_SIZE(kretprobe_blacklist);
+
/* insert a jmp code */
static __always_inline void set_jmp_op(void *from, void *to)
{