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Re: kprobe fault handling
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). Don't be fooled by
the clever trick of bypassing the "might_sleep" warning using that
"...._inatomic" lower level call.
- FChE