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Date:   Fri, 12 Oct 2018 14:22:43 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] x86: ptrace: Add function argument access API
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On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 11:21:28 -0700
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 9:26 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Anyone have any issues with this patch?
> >  
> 
> I'm conceptually okay with it.  That being said,
> regs_within_kernel_stack(), which you're indirectly using, is
> off-by-a-few.  And updating it to use probe_kernel_read() might be
> nice for robustness.
> 

100% agree. I'll add a patch on top of it to make the changes, and keep
what Masami had originally for full history.

Thanks for taking the time to take a look at it.

-- Steve