automated way to find functions that we might want to blacklist

Josh Stone jistone@redhat.com
Thu Jan 19 16:42:00 GMT 2012


On 01/19/2012 05:10 AM, Sami Liedes wrote:
> Is there a way to blacklist a single place where one of these is
> inlined? I don't think blacklisting the offending function where these
> are inlined would prevent the crash with 'probe
> kernel.function("hash_64") {}'. Or would it?

Currently, we don't.  We do check whether the inlined address is
anywhere within a __kprobes-marked function, but the name comparison is
only done on the inline function itself.  We could enhance this though,
because that nesting hierarchy is present in DWARF.



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