On 14/03/06, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
On 03/01/2014 01:15 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 05:17:15AM +0000, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
>>This patch adds auditing functions on entry to or exit from
>>every system call invocation.
>>
>>Acked-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb(a)redhat.com>
>>Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi(a)linaro.org>
>>---
>> arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
>> 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>
>I think you need to do something like I did for arch/arm/, where we have
>separate trace functions for entry/exit to make sure that we invoke the
>various helpers in the correct order (for example, you want to invoke all
>the debug stuff *first* on entry, but *last* on exit).
>
>Will
If you mean syscall_trace_enter()/exit(), I will follow your suggestion
for readability.
It isn't so much a question of readability, but rather correctness,
undoing operations in the opposite order on exit that they were done on
entry.
-Takahiro AKASHI
- RGB
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