[PATCH -tip v8 07/26] [BUGFIX] x86: Prohibit probing on thunk functions and restore

Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org
Mon Mar 24 18:56:00 GMT 2014


On Wed, 05 Mar 2014 20:59:32 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> wrote:

> thunk/restore functions are also used for tracing irqoff etc.
> and those are involved in kprobe's exception handling.
> Prohibit probing on them to avoid kernel crash.
> 
> 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>

Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

-- Steve



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