kernel panic when kretprobe all system calls

Hien Nguyen hien@us.ibm.com
Mon Sep 26 16:28:00 GMT 2005


Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:

>Hi -
>
>On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 08:55:08AM -0700, Hien Nguyen wrote:
>  
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>>[...]
>>Does that solve the problem completely?  We would need to treat
>>similarly some of their subsidiary "noreturn" functions.
>>
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It does seem solve a bulk of the problem (particularly excluding 
sys_execve). So far those are the "noreturn" system calls (they 're also 
tearing down task) that we know of.

>By policy, you mean code that blacklists certain functions from
>probing?  I was holding off until results from jkenisto's bug #1235
>were collected.
>
>  
>
Yes, put them on the blacklist.

Hien.




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