Re: [PATCH -tip v8 07/26] [BUGFIX] x86: Prohibit probing on thunk functions and restore

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Fri Mar 21 2014 - 21:00:43 EST


On Wed, 05 Mar 2014 20:59:32 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> thunk_ra trace_hardirqs_on_thunk,trace_hardirqs_on_caller
> diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/thunk_64.S b/arch/x86/lib/thunk_64.S
> index a63efd6..92d9fea 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/lib/thunk_64.S
> +++ b/arch/x86/lib/thunk_64.S
> @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
> #include <linux/linkage.h>
> #include <asm/dwarf2.h>
> #include <asm/calling.h>
> +#include <asm/asm.h>
>
> /* rdi: arg1 ... normal C conventions. rax is saved/restored. */
> .macro THUNK name, func, put_ret_addr_in_rdi=0
> @@ -25,6 +26,7 @@
> call \func
> jmp restore
> CFI_ENDPROC
> + _ASM_NOKPROBE(\name)
> .endm
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS
> @@ -43,3 +45,4 @@ restore:
> RESTORE_ARGS
> ret
> CFI_ENDPROC
> + _ASM_NOKPROBE(restore)
>

Does kallsyms return something for this? I'm curious to what it does.
It might find something that we didn't expect. Do you have debug code
to list out all the black listed items found at boot up?

-- Steve


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