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author | Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2008-10-23 09:33:01 -0400 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-10-23 10:00:18 -0400 |
commit | ab9a0918cbf0fa8883301838df8dbc8fc085ff50 (patch) | |
tree | 2a20ea7410ff8c72d8601a08baf73b743239e9b3 /arch | |
parent | 76aefee57657428fb77cbd8624119c1a440bee44 (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.c | 8 |
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(); |