[PATCH v11 8/9] arm64: Add kernel return probes support (kretprobes)

平松雅巳 / HIRAMATU,MASAMI masami.hiramatsu.pt at hitachi.com
Thu Mar 17 05:58:20 PDT 2016


>From: 平松雅巳 / HIRAMATU,MASAMI [mailto:masami.hiramatsu.pt at hitachi.com]
>
>Hi,
>
>>From: Sandeepa Prabhu <sandeepa.s.prabhu at gmail.com>
>>
>>The pre-handler of this special 'trampoline' kprobe executes the return
>>probe handler functions and restores original return address in ELR_EL1.
>>This way the saved pt_regs still hold the original register context to be
>>carried back to the probed kernel function.
>
>This patch seems not well separated.
>
>>diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/kprobes.c
>>index bd3f233..13d3333 100644
>>--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/kprobes.c
>>+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/kprobes.c
>
>[snip]
>
>>+void __kprobes arch_prepare_kretprobe(struct kretprobe_instance *ri,
>>+				      struct pt_regs *regs)
>>+{
>>+	ri->ret_addr = (kprobe_opcode_t *)regs->regs[30];
>>+
>>+	/* replace return addr (x30) with trampoline */
>>+	regs->regs[30] = (long)&kretprobe_trampoline;
>
>So, where is the kretprobe_trampoline? It seems that function is
>defined in other patch.
>
>>+}
>>+
>>+int __kprobes arch_trampoline_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
>>+{
>>+	return 0;
>> }
>
>And what this function is for??

Ah, sorry, this was my fault. Yes, this function is required.
But this implementation also means there is an asm-based trampoline
function which should be included in this patch.

David, could you tell me the repository which I can get the latest
version of this series? I'd like to see the whole code of kprobes/arm64.

Thank you,



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