Commit 5ecaafdb authored Feb 05, 2010 by Masami Hiramatsu Committed by Ingo Molnar Feb 05, 2010

kprobes: Add mcount to the kprobes blacklist

Since mcount function can be called from everywhere,
it should be blacklisted. Moreover, the "mcount" symbol
is a special symbol name. So, it is better to put it in
the generic blacklist.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100205062433.3745.36726.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

parent 2161db96

kernel/kprobes.c

+1 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ static struct kprobe_blackpoint kprobe_blacklist[] = {
		{"native_get_debugreg",},
		{"irq_entries_start",},
		{"common_interrupt",},
		{"mcount",}, /* mcount can be called from everywhere */
		{NULL} /* Terminator */
		};