Re: [PATCH -tip v8 03/13] kprobes: treewide: Remove trampoline_address from kretprobe_trampoline_handler()

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

* Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> --- a/include/linux/kprobes.h
> +++ b/include/linux/kprobes.h
> @@ -197,15 +197,23 @@ extern void arch_prepare_kretprobe(struct kretprobe_instance *ri,
>  				   struct pt_regs *regs);
>  extern int arch_trampoline_kprobe(struct kprobe *p);
>  
> +void kretprobe_trampoline(void);
> +/*
> + * Since some architecture uses structured function pointer,
> + * use dereference_function_descriptor() to get real function address.
> + */
> +static nokprobe_inline void *kretprobe_trampoline_addr(void)
> +{
> +	return dereference_kernel_function_descriptor(kretprobe_trampoline);
> +}

Could we please also make 'kretprobe_trampoline' harder to use 
accidentally, such by naming it appropriately?

__kretprobe_trampoline would be a good first step I guess.

Thanks,

	Ingo