[Bug translator/10607] need way to protect sensitive tapset globals

fche at redhat dot com sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org
Wed May 16 15:54:00 GMT 2012


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10607

Frank Ch. Eigler <fche at redhat dot com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|need way to disable         |need way to protect
                   |global-setting module       |sensitive tapset globals
                   |params                      |

--- Comment #1 from Frank Ch. Eigler <fche at redhat dot com> 2012-05-16 15:53:27 UTC ---
Note that it's not sufficient to just disable -G foo=bar.  An end-user script
could equivalently include  probe begin(1) { tapset_global = naughty_value } to
mess with this.  So we'd need a more general mechanism to protect tapset
internal globals, whose change could cause problems.

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