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* [Patch] Kprobes: bugfix of kprobe-booster: reenable kprobe-booster
@ 2006-05-19 20:13 Satoshi Oshima
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From: Satoshi Oshima @ 2006-05-19 20:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton
  Cc: linux-kernel, systemtap, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli,
	Jim Keniston, Prasanna S Panchamukhi, Keshavamurthy, Anil S,
	Hideo AOKI@redhat, sugita, Masami Hiramatsu

Hi Andrew,

I found a bug of kprobes in i386.

Kprobe-booster doesn't work if CONFIG_PREEMPT is not set.
Because pre_preempt_count is always 0.

Boostability have been disabled when removing '#ifdef 
CONFIG_PREEMPT' I think.

This bug doesn't cause a kernel panic.

Regards,

Satoshi Oshima

Signed-off-by: Satoshi Oshima <soshima@redhat.com>

diff -Narup linux-2.6.17-rc3-mm1.orig/arch/i386/kernel/kprobes.c kprobes-i386-bugfix/arch/i386/kernel/kprobes.c
--- linux-2.6.17-rc3-mm1.orig/arch/i386/kernel/kprobes.c	2006-05-04 12:34:46.000000000 -0400
+++ kprobes-i386-bugfix/arch/i386/kernel/kprobes.c	2006-05-12 15:41:23.000000000 -0400
@@ -257,7 +257,11 @@ static int __kprobes kprobe_handler(stru
 	int ret = 0;
 	kprobe_opcode_t *addr;
 	struct kprobe_ctlblk *kcb;
+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
 	unsigned pre_preempt_count = preempt_count();
+#else
+	unsigned pre_preempt_count = 1;
+#endif
 
 	addr = (kprobe_opcode_t *)(regs->eip - sizeof(kprobe_opcode_t));
 

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