Re: [PATCH 16/18] arm64: kprobes: fix kprobes without CONFIG_KRETPROBES

From: Kees Cook
Date: Mon Oct 21 2019 - 12:07:03 EST


On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 08:21:48AM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 at 18:11, Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This allows CONFIG_KRETPROBES to be disabled without disabling
> > kprobes entirely.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Can we make kretprobes work with the shadow call stack instead?

I've been viewing that as "next steps". This series is the first step:
actually gaining the feature and clearly indicating where future
improvements can live.

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Kees Cook