Hello everyone,
This is my first message to the KernelNewbies mailing list, so please correct me if I'm not asking my question the right way.
What I actually want to do is to somehow intercept an internal kernel function. The only way that seemed possible from my research was the "classic" function injection technique (similar to the ones mentioned in the old Phrack 59 and 61) by finding the function's address (e.g. through /proc/kallsyms), overriding the first instructions with a jmp to my own function (and optionally calling the original function by the same or other tricks). This method works just fine for sys_* system call functions without any problem. But when I try the same method for a function like printk , the kernel crashes while my overridden function gets called. I'm sure my overridden function is called as I can use the original prink in it. I have lock and unlocked inside my function. I have also changed the function with a one without any instructions in the body and still THE SAME thing happens!
[ so sorry for the double post, I accidentally hit the send, I guess I was too excited for my first post! :-) ]
