linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -tip v8 02/13] kprobes: treewide: Replace arch_deref_entry_point() with dereference_symbol

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Date:   Wed, 7 Jul 2021 11:28:10 -0700
From:   Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
To:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Cc:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Xu <dxu@...uu.xyz>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
        Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip v8 02/13] kprobes: treewide: Replace
 arch_deref_entry_point() with dereference_symbol_descriptor()

On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 12:05 AM Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Replace arch_deref_entry_point() with dereference_symbol_descriptor()
> because those are doing same thing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
> Tested-by: Andrii Nakryik <andrii@...nel.org>

Hi Masami,

If you are going to post v9 anyway, can you please fix up my name, it
should be "Andrii Nakryiko", thanks!

> ---
>  Changes in v6:
>   - Use dereference_symbol_descriptor() so that it can handle address in
>     modules correctly.
> ---
>  arch/ia64/kernel/kprobes.c    |    5 -----
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c |   11 -----------
>  include/linux/kprobes.h       |    1 -
>  kernel/kprobes.c              |    7 +------
>  lib/error-inject.c            |    3 ++-
>  5 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
>

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