On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 4:44 PM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 12:47:46 +0900 > Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Since kprobes handler runs in IRQ context, we can not use access_ok() in it. > > (only on x86 + CONFIG_DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP=y) > > Is it really IRQ context or exception context? That is, one > (interrupts) happen for any task, but exceptions happen because of the > software that is executed (like a breakpoint). Although you can have a > kprobe trigger in an interrupt handler (where user access wouldn't make > sense anyway). But there should be no problem with user access from an > exception handler. > Can we just get rid of this might_sleep()? access_ok() doesn't sleep as far as I know.
