On Wednesday 09 August 2006 03:18, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> KPROBE_ENTRY does a .section .kprobes.text, and expects its users to
> do a .previous at the end of the function.
>
> Unfortunately, if any code within the function switches sections, for
> example .fixup, then the .previous ends up putting all subsequent code
> into .fixup. Worse, any subsequent .fixup code gets intermingled with
> the code its supposed to be fixing (which is also in .fixup). It's
> surprising this didn't cause more havok.
>
> The fix is to use .pushsection/.popsection, so this stuff nests
> properly. A further cleanup would be to get rid of all
> .section/.previous pairs, since they're inherently fragile.
Added thanks.
-Andi
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