[BUGFIX PATCH V2 0/3] kprobes/arm: Improve kprobes implementation on arm
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From: Jon Medhurst Tixy <hidden>
Date: 2017-02-17 11:01:19
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On Wed, 2017-02-15 at 09:27 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
Hi, Here is the 2nd version of the patches which improve kprobe on arm implementation (a kind of bugfix). Version 1 is here; https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/2/13/538 In this version I didn't update the code, just update the patch description according to Tixy's comment and add his Ack. Thank you, --- Masami Hiramatsu (3): kprobes/arm: Allow to handle reentered kprobe on single-stepping kprobes/arm: Skip single-stepping in recursing path if possible kprobes/arm: Fix the return address of multiple kretprobes
Thanks for doing these. Am I correct in assuming we don't need to consider these fixes urgent or critical? Only the first looks like it could be serious, and the x86 fix for that is 3 years old and ARM has gone without it all this time. So I'm guessing it's fine to wait for the normal development process and deal with it after the about to open merge window is completed? If so, I propose that I put the patches in a branch for Russell to pull later (unless he pipes up with objections or says otherwise). Meantime I'll investigate the kprobes test failures I see (which actually looks like cache/TLB issues and not test code problems after all). BTW, I added the?ARM kernel list to the CC. I spotted you didn't add it to you patch postings, which means people interested in ARM (other than Russell) wouldn't have seen them. Thanks -- Tixy