Re: [PATCH -tip v6 06/22] [BUGFIX] x86: Prohibit probing on memcpy/memset

From: Jovi Zhangwei
Date: Thu Dec 19 2013 - 04:37:35 EST


Hi Masami,

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Masami Hiramatsu
<masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> memcpy/memset functions are fundamental functions and
> those are involved in kprobe's exception handling.
> Prohibit probing on them to avoid kernel crash.
>
Would you please let me know the LKML link of that bugfix, I cannot
find it in my LKML fold.

No objection on this patch. :) just want to know more, It seems there
have no problem to probe memcpy in my box, maybe I didn't hit the
crash code path.

Thanks.

Jovi
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