linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -tip RFC v2 01/22] kprobes: Prohibit probing on .entry.text code

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Message-ID: <20131115114306.5d14db66@gandalf.local.home>
Date:	Fri, 15 Nov 2013 11:43:06 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@....com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip RFC v2 01/22] kprobes: Prohibit probing on
 .entry.text code

On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 04:53:18 +0000
Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.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.

This change only works with x86. On other archs, I get this:

kernel/built-in.o: In function `register_kprobe':
(.kprobes.text+0x9f4): undefined reference to `__entry_text_start'
kernel/built-in.o: In function `register_kprobe':
(.kprobes.text+0x9f8): undefined reference to `__entry_text_end'
make[1]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
make: *** [sub-make] Error 2

-- Steve
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