On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 05:10:39PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 11:01:45AM -0500, David Smith wrote:
> > > + if (p->symbol_name) {
> > > + if (p->addr)
> > > + return -EINVAL;
> > > + p->addr = kprobe_lookup_name(p->symbol_name) + p->offset;
> > > + }
> >
> > What if kprobe_lookup_name() fails
>
> for that case we need the check in your snipplet below.
The next check:
if ((!kernel_text_address((unsigned long) p->addr)) ||
in_kprobes_functions((unsigned long) p->addr))
return -EINVAL;
will catch this case anyway (unless some arch has kernel text starting
at vaddr 0)
Ananth
>
> > or if CONFIG_KALLSYMS isn't set?
>
> I think we should just disallow that case. having kprobes without kallsyms
> is rather pointless. I'll send a patch to add the dependency to the Kconfig
> files.
>
> > Perhaps this needs something like:
> >
> > if (p->symbol_name) {
> > if (p->addr)
> > return -EINVAL;
> > p->addr = kprobe_lookup_name(p->symbol_name) + p->offset;
> > if (p->addr == p->offset)
> > return -EINVAL;
> > }
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