On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:59:56 EDT, Kyle Moffett said: > Proper fix is to give __kmalloc a "void *caller" parameter and have > all of the various wrapper functions pass in the value of > __builtin_return_address() appropriately. I believe that even works > properly for inline functions which may or may not be inlined.
I think I looked at that, and it wasn't as easy as it looked, because there were ugly corner cases for what __builtin_return_address() returned depending on exactly what did or didn't get inlined. Basically, it's ugly stuff - if you try to use __builtin_retur_address inside kcalloc to pass to __kmalloc, and then kcalloc gets inlined, you end up passing not the routine you wanted (the caller of kcalloc), but the *parent* of that...
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