linux/arch/arm/probes/kprobes
Peter Zijlstra ec6aba3d2b kprobes: Remove kprobe::fault_handler
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.

Is 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>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210525073213.561116662@infradead.org
2021-06-01 16:00:08 +02:00
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actions-arm.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 174 2019-05-30 11:26:41 -07:00
actions-common.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500 2019-06-19 17:09:55 +02:00
actions-thumb.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500 2019-06-19 17:09:55 +02:00
checkers-arm.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 174 2019-05-30 11:26:41 -07:00
checkers-common.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 174 2019-05-30 11:26:41 -07:00
checkers-thumb.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 174 2019-05-30 11:26:41 -07:00
checkers.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 174 2019-05-30 11:26:41 -07:00
core.c kprobes: Remove kprobe::fault_handler 2021-06-01 16:00:08 +02:00
core.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 174 2019-05-30 11:26:41 -07:00
Makefile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
opt-arm.c ARM: 9019/1: kprobes: Avoid fortify_panic() when copying optprobe template 2020-10-27 12:11:51 +00:00
test-arm.c ARM: 9062/1: kprobes: rewrite test-arm.c in UAL 2021-03-25 10:27:40 +00:00
test-core.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500 2019-06-19 17:09:55 +02:00
test-core.h ARM: 9062/1: kprobes: rewrite test-arm.c in UAL 2021-03-25 10:27:40 +00:00
test-thumb.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500 2019-06-19 17:09:55 +02:00