aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/arch
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2008-10-23 09:33:01 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-10-23 10:00:18 -0400
commitab9a0918cbf0fa8883301838df8dbc8fc085ff50 (patch)
tree2a20ea7410ff8c72d8601a08baf73b743239e9b3 /arch
parent76aefee57657428fb77cbd8624119c1a440bee44 (diff)
ftrace: use probe_kernel
Andrew Morton suggested using the proper API for reading and writing kernel areas that might fault. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c8
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
index 783455454d78..da4fb0deecf7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c
@@ -67,15 +67,14 @@ ftrace_modify_code(unsigned long ip, unsigned char *old_code,
67 * Note: Due to modules and __init, code can 67 * Note: Due to modules and __init, code can
68 * disappear and change, we need to protect against faulting 68 * disappear and change, we need to protect against faulting
69 * as well as code changing. We do this by using the 69 * as well as code changing. We do this by using the
70 * __copy_*_user functions. 70 * probe_kernel_* functions.
71 * 71 *
72 * No real locking needed, this code is run through 72 * No real locking needed, this code is run through
73 * kstop_machine, or before SMP starts. 73 * kstop_machine, or before SMP starts.
74 */ 74 */
75 75
76 /* read the text we want to modify */ 76 /* read the text we want to modify */
77 if (__copy_from_user_inatomic(replaced, (char __user *)ip, 77 if (probe_kernel_read(replaced, (void *)ip, MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE))
78 MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE))
79 return -EFAULT; 78 return -EFAULT;
80 79
81 /* Make sure it is what we expect it to be */ 80 /* Make sure it is what we expect it to be */
@@ -83,8 +82,7 @@ ftrace_modify_code(unsigned long ip, unsigned char *old_code,
83 return -EINVAL; 82 return -EINVAL;
84 83
85 /* replace the text with the new text */ 84 /* replace the text with the new text */
86 if (__copy_to_user_inatomic((char __user *)ip, new_code, 85 if (probe_kernel_write((void *)ip, new_code, MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE))
87 MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE))
88 return -EPERM; 86 return -EPERM;
89 87
90 sync_core(); 88 sync_core();