Re: [PATCH v5 0/2] Return EADDRNOTAVAIL when func matches several symbols during kprobe creation

On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 17:40:28 +0300 Francis Laniel flaniel@linux.microsoft.com wrote:

Changes since: v1:

• Use EADDRNOTAVAIL instead of adding a new error code.
• Correct also this behavior for sysfs kprobe.

v2:

• Count the number of symbols corresponding to function name and return

EADDRNOTAVAIL if higher than 1.

• Return ENOENT if above count is 0, as it would be returned later by while

registering the kprobe. v3:

• Check symbol does not contain ':' before testing its uniqueness.
• Add a selftest to check this is not possible to install a kprobe for a non

unique symbol. v5:

• No changes, just add linux-stable as recipient.

So why is this adding stable? (and as Greg's form letter states, that's not how you do that)

I don't see this as a fix but a new feature.

-- Steve