Re: [PATCH] kprobes for 2.5.50-bk2

From: Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Date: Tue Dec 03 2002 - 07:18:58 EST

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On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 12:54:47PM +0530, Vamsi Krishna S . wrote:

> kprobes allows trapping at almost any kernel address, useful for
> various kernel-hacking tasks, and building on for more
> infrastructure.

This last part just got me thinking.
What stops someone for example using this to implement a binary
only replacement of the TCP/IP stack, or any other part of the
kernel for that matter ?

Dave

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