kprobes problem

Baruch Even baruch@ev-en.org
Mon Mar 14 16:53:00 GMT 2005


Prasanna S Panchamukhi wrote:
> Hi Baruch,
> 
> Thanks for pointing it out.
> Yes, kprobes could not handle probes on ret/lret instruction.
> The instruction pointer modification in case of ret/lret
> instrcution is not required.
> The below patch should fix the problem. This patch is for i386 
> achitecture and soon will be ported to other architectures.
> 
> Please let me know if you have any issues.

I've tried this patch and everything works just fine now. Thanks for 
fixing this.

Baruch



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