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    kprobes: Disabling optimized kprobes for entry text section · 2a8247a2
    Jiri Olsa 提交于
    You can crash the kernel (with root/admin privileges) using kprobe tracer by running:
    
     echo "p system_call_after_swapgs" > ./kprobe_events
     echo 1 > ./events/kprobes/enable
    
    The reason is that at the system_call_after_swapgs label, the
    kernel stack is not set up. If optimized kprobes are enabled,
    the user space stack is being used in this case (see optimized
    kprobe template) and this might result in a crash.
    
    There are several places like this over the entry code
    (entry_$BIT). As it seems there's no any reasonable/maintainable
    way to disable only those places where the stack is not ready, I
    switched off the whole entry code from kprobe optimizing.
    Signed-off-by: NJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
    Acked-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
    Cc: acme@redhat.com
    Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
    Cc: ananth@in.ibm.com
    Cc: davem@davemloft.net
    Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
    Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
    Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
    LKML-Reference: <1298298313-5980-3-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    2a8247a2
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