[PATCH -tip v8 03/26] kprobes: Prohibit probing on .entry.text code
Steven Rostedt
rostedt@goodmis.org
Mon Mar 24 18:55:00 GMT 2014
On Wed, 05 Mar 2014 20:59:04 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> wrote:
> .entry.text is a code area which is used for interrupt/syscall
> entries, and there are many sensitive codes.
> Thus, it is better to prohibit probing on all of such codes
> instead of a part of that.
> Since some symbols are already registered on kprobe blacklist,
> this also removes them from the blacklist.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> ---
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
-- Steve
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