| | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH 2.6.37-rc5-tip 11/20] 11: uprobes: slot allocation for uprobes | | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | | Date | Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:56:16 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 15:29 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote: > + /* > + * We keep the vma's vm_start rather than a pointer to the vma > + * itself. The probed process or a naughty kernel module could make > + * the vma go away, and we must handle that reasonably gracefully. > + */ > + unsigned long vaddr; /* Page(s) of instruction slots */
You could simply refuse to let the user unmap that area and rogue kernel modules aren't something you can do anything about anyway.
But yeah..
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