Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] selftests: livepatch: test livepatching a kprobed function

[Miroslav Benes]

On Thu, 17 Oct 2024, Michael Vetter wrote:

> The test proves that a function that is being kprobed and uses a
> post_handler cannot be livepatched.
> 
> Only one ftrace_ops with FTRACE_OPS_FL_IPMODIFY set may be registered
> to any given function at a time.
> 
> Note that the conflicting kprobe could not be created using the
> tracefs interface, see Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst.
> This interface uses only the pre_handler(), see alloc_trace_kprobe().
> But FTRACE_OPS_FL_IPMODIFY is used only when the kprobe is using a
> post_handler, see arm_kprobe_ftrace().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Vetter <mvetter@xxxxxxxx>

Nice test.

Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@xxxxxxx>

Thank you,
Miroslav