linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 08/11] kprobes: switch to kernel

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Message-Id: <20200819104655.436656-9-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Date:   Wed, 19 Aug 2020 12:46:52 +0200
From:   Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
To:     linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
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        Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 08/11] kprobes: switch to kernel_clone()

The old _do_fork() helper is removed in favor of the new kernel_clone() helper.
The latter adheres to naming conventions for kernel internal syscall helpers.

Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
Cc: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@...cle.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
---
/* v2 */
unchanged
---
 samples/kprobes/kprobe_example.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/samples/kprobes/kprobe_example.c b/samples/kprobes/kprobe_example.c
index 240f2435ce6f..a02f53836ee1 100644
--- a/samples/kprobes/kprobe_example.c
+++ b/samples/kprobes/kprobe_example.c
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
 /*
  * NOTE: This example is works on x86 and powerpc.
  * Here's a sample kernel module showing the use of kprobes to dump a
- * stack trace and selected registers when _do_fork() is called.
+ * stack trace and selected registers when kernel_clone() is called.
  *
  * For more information on theory of operation of kprobes, see
  * Documentation/staging/kprobes.rst
  *
  * You will see the trace data in /var/log/messages and on the console
- * whenever _do_fork() is invoked to create a new process.
+ * whenever kernel_clone() is invoked to create a new process.
  */
 
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 #include <linux/kprobes.h>
 
 #define MAX_SYMBOL_LEN	64
-static char symbol[MAX_SYMBOL_LEN] = "_do_fork";
+static char symbol[MAX_SYMBOL_LEN] = "kernel_clone";
 module_param_string(symbol, symbol, sizeof(symbol), 0644);
 
 /* For each probe you need to allocate a kprobe structure */
-- 
2.28.0