Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:01:20 +0530
From: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 7/26]  7: x86: analyze instruction
 and determine fixups.
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* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> [2011-04-19 09:29:11]:

> On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 20:03 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> 
> > +
> > +static void report_bad_prefix(void)
> > +{
> > +	printk(KERN_ERR "uprobes does not currently support probing "
> > +		"instructions with any of the following prefixes: "
> > +		"cs:, ds:, es:, ss:, lock:\n");
> > +}
> > +
> > +static void report_bad_1byte_opcode(int mode, uprobe_opcode_t op)
> > +{
> > +	printk(KERN_ERR "In %d-bit apps, "
> > +		"uprobes does not currently support probing "
> > +		"instructions whose first byte is 0x%2.2x\n", mode, op);
> > +}
> > +
> > +static void report_bad_2byte_opcode(uprobe_opcode_t op)
> > +{
> > +	printk(KERN_ERR "uprobes does not currently support probing "
> > +		"instructions with the 2-byte opcode 0x0f 0x%2.2x\n", op);
> > +}
> 
> Should these really be KERN_ERR, or is KERN_WARNING a better fit?
> 
> Also, can a non-privileged user cause these printks to spam the console
> and cause a DoS to the system?
> 

Sometimes, the user might try registering a probe at a valid file +
valid offset + valid consumer; but an instruction that we cant probe.
Then trying to figure why its failing would be very hard.

how about pr_warn_ratelimited()?

-- 
Thanks and Regards
Srikar
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