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hw-breakpoints: Tag ptrace breakpoint as exclude_kernel

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Tag ptrace breakpoints with the exclude_kernel attribute set. This
will make it easier to set generic policies on breakpoints, when it
comes to ensure nobody unpriviliged try to breakpoint on the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: K. Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Frederic Weisbecker
2010-04-22 05:05:45 +02:00
parent d00a47cce5
commit 73266fc1df
3 changed files with 8 additions and 2 deletions
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include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h
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@@ -34,6 +34,12 @@ static inline void hw_breakpoint_init(struct perf_event_attr *attr)
attr->sample_period = 1;
}
static inline void ptrace_breakpoint_init(struct perf_event_attr *attr)
{
hw_breakpoint_init(attr);
attr->exclude_kernel = 1;
}
static inline unsigned long hw_breakpoint_addr(struct perf_event *bp)
{
return bp->attr.bp_addr;