Re: [PATCH] Kprobes /proc entry

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Jan 18 2005 - 01:45:28 EST


On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 05:58:00PM +0100, Luca Falavigna wrote:
> +static ssize_t kprobes_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
> + size_t size, loff_t *off)
> +{
> + int i;
> + char *data = "";
> + ssize_t len = 0;
> + struct hlist_node *node;
> + struct kprobe *k;
> +
> + spin_lock(&kprobe_lock);
> + for(i = 0; i < KPROBE_TABLE_SIZE; i++) {
> + hlist_for_each_entry(k, node, &kprobe_table[i], hlist) {
> + if(k) {
> + kprobes_list_info(k, data + len);
> + len += strlen(data);
> + }
> + }
> + }
> + spin_unlock(&kprobe_lock);
> + return simple_read_from_buffer(buf, size, off, data, len);

Am I missing where you allocate the space for the data to be put into?

Also, why not use the seqfile interface for this, to prevent overflowing
the read buffer?

thanks,

greg k-h
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