Re: [PATCH -tip v8 02/13] kprobes: treewide: Replace arch_deref_entry_point() with dereference_symbol_descriptor()

From: Andrii Nakryiko
Date: Wed Jul 07 2021 - 14:28:35 EST


On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 12:05 AM Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Replace arch_deref_entry_point() with dereference_symbol_descriptor()
> because those are doing same thing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Andrii Nakryik <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Masami,

If you are going to post v9 anyway, can you please fix up my name, it
should be "Andrii Nakryiko", thanks!

> ---
> Changes in v6:
> - Use dereference_symbol_descriptor() so that it can handle address in
> modules correctly.
> ---
> arch/ia64/kernel/kprobes.c | 5 -----
> arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c | 11 -----------
> include/linux/kprobes.h | 1 -
> kernel/kprobes.c | 7 +------
> lib/error-inject.c | 3 ++-
> 5 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
>

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