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author | Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> | 2014-04-17 10:17:05 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2014-04-24 10:02:56 +0200 |
commit | 376e242429bf8539ef39a080ac113c8799840b13 (patch) | |
tree | 33c871f48d37acd167de0b3bf5c902ce4aaa325c /Documentation | |
parent | kprobes: Prohibit probing on .entry.text code (diff) | |
download | linux-376e242429bf8539ef39a080ac113c8799840b13.tar.xz linux-376e242429bf8539ef39a080ac113c8799840b13.zip |
kprobes: Introduce NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() macro to maintain kprobes blacklist
Introduce NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() macro which builds a kprobes
blacklist at kernel build time.
The usage of this macro is similar to EXPORT_SYMBOL(),
placed after the function definition:
NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(function);
Since this macro will inhibit inlining of static/inline
functions, this patch also introduces a nokprobe_inline macro
for static/inline functions. In this case, we must use
NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() for the inline function caller.
When CONFIG_KPROBES=y, the macro stores the given function
address in the "_kprobe_blacklist" section.
Since the data structures are not fully initialized by the
macro (because there is no "size" information), those
are re-initialized at boot time by using kallsyms.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140417081705.26341.96719.stgit@ltc230.yrl.intra.hitachi.co.jp
Cc: Alok Kataria <akataria@vmware.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jan-Simon Möller <dl9pf@gmx.de>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kprobes.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/kprobes.txt b/Documentation/kprobes.txt index 0cfb00fd86ff..4bbeca8483ed 100644 --- a/Documentation/kprobes.txt +++ b/Documentation/kprobes.txt @@ -22,8 +22,9 @@ Appendix B: The kprobes sysctl interface Kprobes enables you to dynamically break into any kernel routine and collect debugging and performance information non-disruptively. You -can trap at almost any kernel code address, specifying a handler +can trap at almost any kernel code address(*), specifying a handler routine to be invoked when the breakpoint is hit. +(*: some parts of the kernel code can not be trapped, see 1.5 Blacklist) There are currently three types of probes: kprobes, jprobes, and kretprobes (also called return probes). A kprobe can be inserted @@ -273,6 +274,19 @@ using one of the following techniques: or - Execute 'sysctl -w debug.kprobes_optimization=n' +1.5 Blacklist + +Kprobes can probe most of the kernel except itself. This means +that there are some functions where kprobes cannot probe. Probing +(trapping) such functions can cause a recursive trap (e.g. double +fault) or the nested probe handler may never be called. +Kprobes manages such functions as a blacklist. +If you want to add a function into the blacklist, you just need +to (1) include linux/kprobes.h and (2) use NOKPROBE_SYMBOL() macro +to specify a blacklisted function. +Kprobes checks the given probe address against the blacklist and +rejects registering it, if the given address is in the blacklist. + 2. Architectures Supported Kprobes, jprobes, and return probes are implemented on the following |