Re: [PATCH] kprobes: bad manipulation of 2 byte opcode on x86_64

[Andi Kleen]

On Friday 19 May 2006 10:29, Richard J Moore wrote:
> Is there any possibility of a inducing a page fault when checking the
> second byte?

AFAIK instr is in the out of line instruction copy. Kernel would need
to be pretty broken already if that page faulted.

-Andi
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