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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2010-04-22 05:05:45 +0200
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2010-05-01 04:32:07 +0200
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hw-breakpoints: Tag ptrace breakpoint as exclude_kernel
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
index 055be0afd330..70c4872cd8aa 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ static int ptrace_set_breakpoint_addr(struct task_struct *tsk, int nr,
struct perf_event_attr attr;
if (!t->ptrace_bps[nr]) {
- hw_breakpoint_init(&attr);
+ ptrace_breakpoint_init(&attr);
/*
* Put stub len and type to register (reserve) an inactive but
* correct bp