Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:41:05 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Implement uhook(call kernel func from userspace) driver |
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On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 12:18:29PM +0800, Peiyong Feng wrote: > 2012/6/23 Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>: > > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 11:20:35AM +0800, Peiyong Feng wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> This patch implement the uhook kernel driver. Here are some ideals and > >> explanations: > >> > >> 1. What is uhook > >> > >> uhook(userspace kernel hook) means call kernel function from > >> userspace. That is to say, we can > >> > >> write a function in kernel space and call it in userspace while the > >> kernel Image is running. For example: > > > > That's, um, "interesting", but is of course, nothing we can accept into > > the main kernel tree, as I'm sure you can understand. Otherwise, you > > just created a few thousand undocumented system calls whose behavior > > changes every release which is not something we can accept. > > > > But it is a great hack, very nicely done. I'm sure that some people > > will like it for debugging, although I'm not quite sure you got all of > > Well, is there some other tree I can commit the patch?
What do you mean by this?
> > the user/kernel boundry conditions correct, and I know the 32/64bit > > issues aren't handled, which you might want to clean up sometime in the > > I am still working on it. The ultimate aim is that the uhook module can process > any funciton and any data type
Good luck :)
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