linux-stable-rt/arch/powerpc
Michael Ellerman 3d7e33825d jprobes: make jprobes a little safer for users
I realise jprobes are a razor-blades-included type of interface, but that
doesn't mean we can't try and make them safer to use.  This guy I know once
wrote code like this:

struct jprobe jp = { .kp.symbol_name = "foo", .entry = "jprobe_foo" };

And then his kernel exploded. Oops.

This patch adds an arch hook, arch_deref_entry_point() (I don't like it
either) which takes the void * in a struct jprobe, and gives back the text
address that it represents.

We can then use that in register_jprobe() to check that the entry point we're
passed is actually in the kernel text, rather than just some random value.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:44 -07:00
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boot Add phy-connection-type to gianfar nodes 2007-07-18 18:29:37 -04:00
configs Merge branch 'for-2.6.23' into merge 2007-07-11 13:28:26 +10:00
kernel jprobes: make jprobes a little safer for users 2007-07-19 10:04:44 -07:00
lib
math-emu
mm mm: fault feedback #2 2007-07-19 10:04:41 -07:00
oprofile [POWERPC] Oprofile enhanced instruction sampling support 2007-07-10 21:55:48 +10:00
platforms mm: fault feedback #2 2007-07-19 10:04:41 -07:00
sysdev Fix RGMII-ID handling in gianfar 2007-07-18 18:29:37 -04:00
xmon [POWERPC] Make two xmon variables static 2007-07-10 21:55:46 +10:00
.gitignore
Kconfig Kprobes on select architectures no longer EXPERIMENTAL 2007-07-17 10:23:03 -07:00
Kconfig.debug
Makefile