[PATCH] Kprobes: Make kprobe modules more portable
In an effort to make kprobe modules more portable, here is a patch that:
o Introduces the "symbol_name" field to struct kprobe.
The symbol->address resolution now happens in the kernel in an
architecture agnostic manner. 64-bit powerpc users no longer have
to specify the ".symbols"
o Introduces the "offset" field to struct kprobe to allow a user to
specify an offset into a symbol.
o The legacy mechanism of specifying the kprobe.addr is still supported.
However, if both the kprobe.addr and kprobe.symbol_name are specified,
probe registration fails with an -EINVAL.
o The symbol resolution code uses kallsyms_lookup_name(). So
CONFIG_KPROBES now depends on CONFIG_KALLSYMS
o Apparantly kprobe modules were the only legitimate out-of-tree user of
the kallsyms_lookup_name() EXPORT. Now that the symbol resolution
happens in-kernel, remove the EXPORT as suggested by Christoph Hellwig
o Modify tcp_probe.c that uses the kprobe interface so as to make it
work on multiple platforms (in its earlier form, the code wouldn't
work, say, on powerpc)
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/kprobes.h b/include/asm-powerpc/kprobes.h
index 34e1f89..1ef54be 100644
--- a/include/asm-powerpc/kprobes.h
+++ b/include/asm-powerpc/kprobes.h
@@ -44,6 +44,21 @@
#define IS_TDI(instr) (((instr) & 0xfc000000) == 0x08000000)
#define IS_TWI(instr) (((instr) & 0xfc000000) == 0x0c000000)
+/*
+ * 64bit powerpc uses function descriptors.
+ * Handle cases where:
+ * - User passes a <.symbol>
+ * - User passes a <symbol>
+ * - User passes a non-existant symbol, kallsyms_lookup_name
+ * returns 0. Don't deref the NULL pointer in that case
+ */
+#define kprobe_lookup_name(name, addr) \
+{ \
+ addr = (kprobe_opcode_t *)kallsyms_lookup_name(name); \
+ if (!(name[0] == '.') && addr) \
+ addr = *(kprobe_opcode_t **)addr; \
+}
+
#define JPROBE_ENTRY(pentry) (kprobe_opcode_t *)((func_descr_t *)pentry)
#define is_trap(instr) (IS_TW(instr) || IS_TD(instr) || \
diff --git a/include/linux/kprobes.h b/include/linux/kprobes.h
index 8bf6702..a5c5a0c 100644
--- a/include/linux/kprobes.h
+++ b/include/linux/kprobes.h
@@ -77,6 +77,12 @@
/* location of the probe point */
kprobe_opcode_t *addr;
+ /* Allow user to indicate symbol name of the probe point */
+ char *symbol_name;
+
+ /* Offset into the symbol */
+ unsigned int offset;
+
/* Called before addr is executed. */
kprobe_pre_handler_t pre_handler;