linux.git/kernel/kprobes.c, branch v2.6.26-rc7

kprobes: fix error checking of batch registration

2008-06-13T01:05:40+00:00

Fix error checking routine to catch an error which occurs in first
__register_*probe().

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 
Cc: Jim Keniston 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kprobes: add (un)register_jprobes for batch registration

2008-04-28T15:58:32+00:00

Introduce unregister_/register_jprobes() for jprobe batch registration.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 
Cc: Jim Keniston 
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi 
Cc: Shaohua Li 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kprobes: add (un)register_kretprobes for batch registration

2008-04-28T15:58:32+00:00

Introduce unregister_/register_kretprobes() for kretprobe batch registration.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 
Cc: Jim Keniston 
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi 
Cc: Shaohua Li 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kprobes: add (un)register_kprobes for batch registration

2008-04-28T15:58:32+00:00

Introduce unregister_/register_kprobes() for kprobe batch registration.  This
can reduce waiting time for synchronized_sched() when a lot of probes have to
be unregistered at once.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 
Cc: Jim Keniston 
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi 
Cc: Shaohua Li 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kprobes: prevent probing of preempt_schedule()

2008-04-28T15:58:32+00:00

Prohibit users from probing preempt_schedule().  One way of prohibiting the
user from probing functions is by marking such functions with __kprobes.  But
this method doesn't work for those functions, which are already marked to
different section like preempt_schedule() (belongs to __sched section).  So we
use blacklist approach to refuse user from probing these functions.

In blacklist approach we populate the blacklisted function's starting address
and its size in kprobe_blacklist structure.  Then we verify the user specified
address against start and end of the blacklisted function.  So any attempt to
register probe on blacklisted functions will be rejected.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Srinivasa DS 
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 
Signed-off-by: Jim Keniston 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kprobes: fix a null pointer bug in register_kretprobe()

2008-03-05T00:35:19+00:00

Fix a bug in regiseter_kretprobe() which does not check rp->kp.symbol_name ==
NULL before calling kprobe_lookup_name.

For maintainability, this introduces kprobe_addr helper function which
resolves addr field.  It is used by register_kprobe and register_kretprobe.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 
Cc: Jim Keniston 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Kprobes: indicate kretprobe support in Kconfig

2008-03-05T00:35:11+00:00

Add CONFIG_HAVE_KRETPROBES to the arch//Kconfig file for relevant
architectures with kprobes support.  This facilitates easy handling of
in-kernel modules (like samples/kprobes/kretprobe_example.c) that depend on
kretprobes being present in the kernel.

Thanks to Sam Ravnborg for helping make the patch more lean.

Per Mathieu's suggestion, added CONFIG_KRETPROBES and fixed up dependencies.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kprobes: kretprobe user entry-handler

2008-02-06T18:41:11+00:00

Provide support to add an optional user defined callback to be run at
function entry of a kretprobe'd function.  Also modify the kprobe smoke
tests to include an entry-handler during the kretprobe sanity test.

Signed-off-by: Abhishek Sagar 
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi 
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy 
Acked-by: Jim Keniston 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

x86: kprobes: add kprobes smoke tests that run on boot

2008-01-30T12:32:53+00:00

Here is a quick and naive smoke test for kprobes. This is intended to
just verify if some unrelated change broke the *probes subsystem. It is
self contained, architecture agnostic and isn't of any great use by itself.

This needs to be built in the kernel and runs a basic set of tests to
verify if kprobes, jprobes and kretprobes run fine on the kernel. In case
of an error, it'll print out a message with a "BUG" prefix.

This is a start; we intend to add more tests to this bucket over time.

Thanks to Jim Keniston and Masami Hiramatsu for comments and suggestions.

Tested on x86 (32/64) and powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

kprobes: support kretprobe blacklist

2007-10-16T16:43:10+00:00

Introduce architecture dependent kretprobe blacklists to prohibit users
from inserting return probes on the function in which kprobes can be
inserted but kretprobes can not.

This patch also removes "__kprobes" mark from "__switch_to" on x86_64 and
registers "__switch_to" to the blacklist on x86-64, because that mark is to
prohibit user from inserting only kretprobe.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi 
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds