Re: [RFC PATCH 5/6] uprobes: add bp_vaddr argument to consumerhandler

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Sat Dec 22 2012 - 11:35:36 EST


On 12/21, Anton Arapov wrote:
>
> struct uprobe_consumer {
> - int (*handler)(struct uprobe_consumer *self, struct pt_regs *regs);
> + int (*handler)(struct uprobe_consumer *self, unsigned long bp_vaddr, struct pt_regs *regs);

It seems that we can do better...

Just change regs->ip before calling ->handler(). In both cases we are
going to change it again, so ->ip doesn't matter.

Initially I though we can't do this for uretprobes, but it seems we can.

I won't insist though.

Oleg.

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