Re: [PATCH 19/21] i386 Kprobes semaphore fix

[Andi Kleen]

On Wednesday 09 November 2005 18:52, Zachary Amsden wrote:

> Well, if there is a justification for it, that means we really should
> handle all the nasty EIP conversion cases due to segmentation and v8086
> mode in the kprobes code.  I was hoping that might not be the case.

Or just forbid kprobes for 16bit processes (or anything running in a non GDT
code segment). Would be perfectly reasonable IMHO.

-Andi
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