linux-kernel - Re: Intercepting system calls

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Date:	Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:47:37 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Gaurav Saxena <grvsaxena419@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Intercepting system calls

On Thu, 22 Dec 2011, Gaurav Saxena wrote:

> I am writing an application for which I need to intercept some
> filesystem system calls eg. unlink. I need unlink to call my code
> before deleting abc so that I could probably prevent unlink . I would
> like to implement this in a kernel module instead of modifying kernel
> code itself. I would like to intercept system calls by replacing
> system calls but I have not been able to find any method of doing that
> in linux > 3.0. Please suggest some method of doing that.

Write a kernel module that instruments sys_unlink() via krpobes. See 
Documentation/kprobes.txt for details.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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