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Re: kprobe fault handling
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 17:12 -0500, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Hi -
>
> > > 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.
>
> Always for the same reason: because it invokes functions that can
> might sleep (and are in fact documented as such).
Which function are those?