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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 10:21:45 -0800
From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@...ux.com>, Masami Hiramatsu
 <mhiramat@...nel.org>, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, Kees Cook
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] stackleak: Disable ftrace for stackleak.c

On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 12:21:48 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 19:51:00 +0300
> Alexander Popov <alex.popov@...ux.com> wrote:
> 
> > By the way, are there any other tracing/instrumentation mechanisms that should
> > be disabled?
> 
> ftrace and kprobes are pretty much the only ones that currently do self
> modification of code all over the kernel. Kprobes even more so than
> ftrace.

Right, since kprobes uses int3 or sw breakpoint exception for hooking into
the code, it consumes stack much more.

Thank you,

-- 
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>

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