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SubjectRe: [PATCH] UPROBES: Remove useless __weak attribute
On 10/09, Ralf Baechle wrote:
>
> <linux/uprobes.h> declares arch_uprobe_skip_sstep() as a weak function.
> But as there is no definition of generic version so when trying to build
> uprobes for an architecture that doesn't yet have a arch_uprobe_skip_sstep()
> implementation, the vmlinux will try to call arch_uprobe_skip_sstep()
> somehwere in Stupidhistan leading to a system crash. We rather want a
> proper link error so remove arch_uprobe_skip_sstep().
>
> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
>
> include/linux/uprobes.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/uprobes.h b/include/linux/uprobes.h
> index 2a9d75d..cec7397 100644
> --- a/include/linux/uprobes.h
> +++ b/include/linux/uprobes.h
> @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ extern int uprobe_post_sstep_notifier(struct pt_regs *regs);
> extern int uprobe_pre_sstep_notifier(struct pt_regs *regs);
> extern void uprobe_notify_resume(struct pt_regs *regs);
> extern bool uprobe_deny_signal(void);
> -extern bool __weak arch_uprobe_skip_sstep(struct arch_uprobe *aup, struct pt_regs *regs);
> +extern bool arch_uprobe_skip_sstep(struct arch_uprobe *aup, struct pt_regs *regs);

Agreed. I'll take this patch, thanks.

Oleg.



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