Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:42:17 -0500 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2 v2] kprobe: Do not use uaccess functions to access kernel memory that can fault |
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On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 01:04:53 +0900 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> wrote:
> > What about just adding 'u' to the end of the offset? Say you have a > > data structure in kernel space that has a field in user space you want > > to reference? > > > > > > field_val=+8u(+0(%si)) > > Ah, that looks good :~) thank you for this idea!
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Hmm, I wonder if we should make it +u8 or u+8? as +8u may be confused as unsigned? Like 8ULL. I don't know. Kernel developers suck at naming :-p
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-- Steve
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