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Message-ID: <20080321110804.GY20420@elte.hu>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:08:04 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: Yakov Lerner <iler.ml@...il.com>
Cc: prasanna@...ibm.com, ananth@...ibm.com,
anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com, davem@...emloft.net,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Subject: kprobes-x86: correct post-eip value in
post_hander()
* Yakov Lerner <iler.ml@...il.com> wrote:
> I was trying to get the address of instruction to be executed next
> after the kprobed instruction. But regs->eip in post_handler()
> contains value which is useless to the user. It's pre-corrected value.
> This value is difficult to use without access to resume_execution(),
> which is not exported anyway. I moved the invocation of post_handler()
> to *after* resume_execution(). Now regs->eip contains meaningful value
> in post_handler().
>
> I do not think this change breaks any backward-compatibility. To make
> meaning of the old value, post_handler() would need access to
> resume_execution() which is not exported. I have difficulty to
> believe that previous, uncorrected, regs->eip can be meaningfully used
> in post_handler().
thanks, i've added your patch to the .26 bucket of x86.git, but it would
be nice to get an Ack/Nack from a kprobes person as well.
Ingo
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