Re: [PATCH -tip v8 03/13] kprobes: treewide: Remove trampoline_address from kretprobe_trampoline_handler()
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- To: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip v8 03/13] kprobes: treewide: Remove trampoline_address from kretprobe_trampoline_handler()
- From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2021 09:49:34 +0200
- Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>, X86 ML <x86@xxxxxxxxxx>, Daniel Xu <dxu@xxxxxxxxx>, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, bpf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kuba@xxxxxxxxxx, mingo@xxxxxxxxxx, ast@xxxxxxxxxx, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, kernel-team@xxxxxx, yhs@xxxxxx, linux-ia64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Abhishek Sagar <sagar.abhishek@xxxxxxxxx>, Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@xxxxxxxxx>
- In-reply-to: <162399994996.506599.17672270294950096639.stgit@devnote2>
- References: <162399992186.506599.8457763707951687195.stgit@devnote2> <162399994996.506599.17672270294950096639.stgit@devnote2>
* Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Remove trampoline_address from kretprobe_trampoline_handler().
> Instead of passing the address, kretprobe_trampoline_handler()
> can use new kretprobe_trampoline_addr().
>
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Andrii Nakryik <andrii@xxxxxxxxxx>
A better changelog:
The __kretprobe_trampoline_handler() callback, called from low level
arch kprobes methods, has the 'trampoline_address' parameter, which is
entirely superfluous as it basically just replicates:
dereference_kernel_function_descriptor(kretprobe_trampoline)
In fact we had bugs in arch code where it wasn't replicated correctly.
So remove this superfluous parameter and use kretprobe_trampoline_addr()
instead.
Thanks,
Ingo
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