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authorAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>2007-05-08 11:28:27 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-05-08 22:15:08 +0400
commit0f95b7fc839bc3272b1bf2325d8748a649bd3534 (patch)
treec5cbf5eabc5b58867d7a8949c412163e37182542 /include/linux
parent8f0c45cdf87dc9141e87b0ad2fc6fff216a95f79 (diff)
downloadlinux-0f95b7fc839bc3272b1bf2325d8748a649bd3534.tar.xz
Kprobes: print details of kretprobe on assertion failure
In certain cases like when the real return address can't be found or when the number of tracked calls to a kretprobed function is less than the number of returns, we may not be able to find the correct return address after processing a kretprobe. Currently we just do a BUG_ON, but no information is provided about the actual failing kretprobe. Print out details of the kretprobe before calling BUG(). Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/kprobes.h10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kprobes.h b/include/linux/kprobes.h
index f26460700379..850ee871e353 100644
--- a/include/linux/kprobes.h
+++ b/include/linux/kprobes.h
@@ -157,6 +157,16 @@ struct kretprobe_instance {
struct task_struct *task;
};
+static inline void kretprobe_assert(struct kretprobe_instance *ri,
+ unsigned long orig_ret_address, unsigned long trampoline_address)
+{
+ if (!orig_ret_address || (orig_ret_address == trampoline_address)) {
+ printk("kretprobe BUG!: Processing kretprobe %p @ %p\n",
+ ri->rp, ri->rp->kp.addr);
+ BUG();
+ }
+}
+
extern spinlock_t kretprobe_lock;
extern struct mutex kprobe_mutex;
extern int arch_prepare_kprobe(struct kprobe *p);