Re: Inserting code from userspace to kernel space

From: Jike Song
Date: Mon May 26 2008 - 05:55:12 EST


Did you try systemtap? It's available at:

http://sourceware.org/systemtap/

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Thanks and regards,
Jike

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Bosko Radivojevic
<bosko.radivojevic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm looking for a way to insert code from user space to the kernel
> space, but without using kernel module. Actually, we are working on a
> system that has to allow end user to change part of code (one or two
> functions) that is executed from the kernel space.
>
> For now we have two different kernel modules, one exporting a function
> which another module uses. Process of compiling kernel module is quite
> ineligible for standard end user (along with the requirement to
> support multi platform cross compiling) compared to just cross
> compiling a simple code that doesn't use any libraries than libc.
>
> I know this sounds quite weird, but maybe there is a project that can help us ;)
>
> Sincerely,
> Bosko
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