Re: [PATCH -tip v2 02/10] kprobes: treewide: Replace arch_deref_entry_point() with dereference_function_descriptor()

Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip v2 02/10] kprobes: treewide: Replace arch_deref_entry_point() with dereference_function_descriptor()
From: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 14:56:50 +0530
Cc: ast@xxxxxxxxxx, bpf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Daniel Xu <dxu@xxxxxxxxx>, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>, kernel-team@xxxxxx, kuba@xxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, mingo@xxxxxxxxxx, tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, X86 ML <x86@xxxxxxxxxx>, yhs@xxxxxx
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Masami Hiramatsu wrote:

Replace arch_deref_entry_point() with dereference_function_descriptor()
because those are doing same thing.


It's not quite the same -- you need dereference_symbol_descriptor().


- Naveen

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- [PATCH -tip v2 00/10] kprobes: Fix stacktrace with kretprobes
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  - From: Masami Hiramatsu