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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH] kprobes: Remove kprobe::fault_handler
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 02:57:03PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> Somewhat related.. I had this pending.
>
> ---
> Subject: kprobes: Remove kprobe::fault_handler
> From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Date: Tue Feb 2 10:43:41 CET 2021
>
> The reason for kprobe::fault_handler(), as given by their comment:
>
> * We come here because instructions in the pre/post
> * handler caused the page_fault, this could happen
> * if handler tries to access user space by
> * copy_from_user(), get_user() etc. Let the
> * user-specified handler try to fix it first.
>
> If just plain bad. Those other handlers are ran from non-preemptible
> context and had better use _nofault() functions. Also, there is no
> upstream usage of this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>

Looks good,

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

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