Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] x86: Allow breakpoints to emulate call functions

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, May 07, 2019 at 08:27:16AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 7 May 2019 11:27:31 +0200
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > FWIW, both these trampolines assume a kprobe will not
> > int3_emulate_{push/call}(), for both bitnesses.
> > 
> > But then; I'm thinking kprobes should be inspection only and not modify
> > things. So that might just be good enough.
> 
> I believe there are kprobe calls that do modify things. Note, they can
> modify regs->ip. 

The kprobe pre_handler as used by kretprobes does, and that is indeed
handled by the trampolines.

> Kprobes sets the FTRACE_OPS_FL_IPMODIFY flag, thus
> they can never be put at the same location that is being live patched.

OK, so do we want to allow kprobes that also modify regs->sp ? Because
then we need to change these trampolines a bit.

I'd prefer not to allow kprobes this.