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ftrace: use probe_kernel
authorSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:33:01 +0000 (09:33 -0400)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:00:18 +0000 (16:00 +0200)
Andrew Morton suggested using the proper API for reading and writing
kernel areas that might fault.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
arch/x86/kernel/ftrace.c

index 783455454d78dff61d14dcbaea05a2d07bcde605..da4fb0deecf7cf8aafe6426f6c6976d1dfd94846 100644 (file)
@@ -67,15 +67,14 @@ ftrace_modify_code(unsigned long ip, unsigned char *old_code,
         * Note: Due to modules and __init, code can
         *  disappear and change, we need to protect against faulting
         *  as well as code changing. We do this by using the
-        *  __copy_*_user functions.
+        *  probe_kernel_* functions.
         *
         * No real locking needed, this code is run through
         * kstop_machine, or before SMP starts.
         */
 
        /* read the text we want to modify */
-       if (__copy_from_user_inatomic(replaced, (char __user *)ip,
-                                     MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE))
+       if (probe_kernel_read(replaced, (void *)ip, MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE))
                return -EFAULT;
 
        /* Make sure it is what we expect it to be */
@@ -83,8 +82,7 @@ ftrace_modify_code(unsigned long ip, unsigned char *old_code,
                return -EINVAL;
 
        /* replace the text with the new text */
-       if (__copy_to_user_inatomic((char __user *)ip, new_code,
-                                   MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE))
+       if (probe_kernel_write((void *)ip, new_code, MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE))
                return -EPERM;
 
        sync_core();