linux-stable/arch/ia64
Michael Ellerman 3d7e33825d jprobes: make jprobes a little safer for users
I realise jprobes are a razor-blades-included type of interface, but that
doesn't mean we can't try and make them safer to use.  This guy I know once
wrote code like this:

struct jprobe jp = { .kp.symbol_name = "foo", .entry = "jprobe_foo" };

And then his kernel exploded. Oops.

This patch adds an arch hook, arch_deref_entry_point() (I don't like it
either) which takes the void * in a struct jprobe, and gives back the text
address that it represents.

We can then use that in register_jprobe() to check that the entry point we're
passed is actually in the kernel text, rather than just some random value.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
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>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:44 -07:00
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configs [IA64] refresh config files 2007-03-08 11:20:17 -08:00
dig [PATCH] tty: Remove include of screen_info.h from tty.h 2006-07-10 13:24:16 -07:00
hp [IA64] Clean away some code inside some non-existent CONFIG ifdefs 2007-07-13 16:31:54 -07:00
ia32 diskquota: 32bit quota tools on 64bit architectures 2007-07-16 09:05:48 -07:00
kernel jprobes: make jprobes a little safer for users 2007-07-19 10:04:44 -07:00
lib missing exports of csum_... 2007-07-17 11:01:07 -07:00
mm mm: fault feedback #2 2007-07-19 10:04:41 -07:00
oprofile Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
pci [IA64] prevent MCA when performing MMIO mmap to PCI config space 2007-07-11 11:34:49 -07:00
scripts Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
sn [IA64] correctly count CPU objects in the ia64/sn hwperf interface 2007-07-13 16:09:46 -07:00
defconfig Pull error-inject into release branch 2007-04-30 13:55:43 -07:00
install.sh Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
Kconfig Kprobes on select architectures no longer EXPERIMENTAL 2007-07-17 10:23:03 -07:00
Kconfig.debug [PATCH] Move Kprobes and Oprofile to "Instrumentation Support" menu 2005-11-07 07:53:35 -08:00
Makefile [IA64] add vmlinuz target 2006-06-21 14:31:07 -07:00
module.lds Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00