Re: Detecting kprobes generated code addresses

[Masami Hiramatsu]

On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 00:42:19 -0600
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Masami,
> 
> I would like to make __kernel_text_address() be able to detect whether
> an address belongs to code which was generated by kprobes.  As far as I
> can tell, that information seems to be in the 'pages' lists of
> kprobe_insn_slots and kprobe_optinsn_slots.  But they seem to be
> protected by mutexes.

Right. It is currently under mutex because it may kick
page allocation. But I think it is easy to fix that :)

>  Do you know if there's a sleep-free way to access
> that information?

Hmm, no, I couldn't find that yet.

Thanks,

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Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>