[PATCH -tip ] [BUGFIX] kprobes: Fix arch_prepare_kprobe to handle copy insn failures
Steven Rostedt
rostedt@goodmis.org
Thu Jun 6 21:06:00 GMT 2013
On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 12:12 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Fix arch_prepare_kprobe() to handle failures in copy instruction
> correctly. This fix is related to the previous fix: 8101376
> which made __copy_instruction return an error result if failed,
> but caller site was not updated to handle it. Thus, this is the
> other half of the bugfix.
>
> This fix is also related to the following bug-report:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910649
>
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
> Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
-- Steve
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c | 14 ++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
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