From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: "Vamsi Krishna S ." <vamsi@in.ibm.com>,
torvalds@transmeta.com, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
dprobes <dprobes@www-124.southbury.usf.ibm.com>,
richard <richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com>, tom <hanrahat@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kprobes for 2.5.50-bk2
Date: 03 Dec 2002 13:56:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p734r9vtg62.fsf@oldwotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Dave Jones's message of "3 Dec 2002 13:28:50 +0100"
Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> writes:
> This last part just got me thinking.
> What stops someone for example using this to implement a binary
> only replacement of the TCP/IP stack, or any other part of the
> kernel for that matter ?
It can be already easily done, just patch the kernel code in /dev/kmem
and add some jump instructions to your loaded module.
But it's not practical, because it's 100% binary dependent and would
break with every small change.
Similar to kprobes. But kprobes is actually useful for kernel debugging/
tracing and unlike many other of these patches not very intrusive.
-Andi
next parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-03 12:48 UTC|newest]
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2002-12-03 12:56 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2002-12-03 13:26 ` Dave Jones
2002-12-03 7:24 Vamsi Krishna S .
2002-12-03 12:18 ` Dave Jones
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