[PATCH] kprobes/ia64: refuse inserting kprobe on slot 1

Without the ability to atomically write 16 bytes, we can not update the
middle slot of a bundle, slot 1, unless we stop the machine first.  This
patch will ensure the ability to robustly insert and remove a kprobe by
refusing to insert a kprobe on slot 1 until a mechanism is in place to
safely handle this case.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Lynch <rusty.lynch@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/ia64/kernel/kprobes.c
index c97e18e634ca..ec2ceade12b0 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -270,6 +270,13 @@ static int valid_kprobe_addr(int template, int slot, unsigned long addr)
                                 addr);
                 return -EINVAL;
         }
+
+        if (slot == 1 && bundle_encoding[template][1] != L) {
+                printk(KERN_WARNING "Inserting kprobes on slot #1 "
+                       "is not supported\n");
+                return -EINVAL;
+        }
+
         return 0;
 }