Re: Blacklist regex is too general

[Alexander Lochmann <alexander dot lochmann at tu-dortmund dot de>]

On 04/12/2016 05:41 PM, David Smith wrote:
> On 04/12/2016 04:12 AM, Alexander Lochmann wrote:
>> Hi folks!
>>
>> I've wanted to measure the impact of packet duplication due to a raw socket.
>> To do so, I have to probe the kernel function 'raw_v4_input' in
>> net/ipv4/raw.c.
>> Unfortunately, the function name matches the regex defined at
>> dwflpp:4324, which is: blfn += "|raw_.*";.
>> On my opinion, the regex is too general, and there is no reason why it
>> shouldn't be allowed to probe 'raw_v4_input'.
>> It therefore might be necessary to rephrase the mentioned regex. :)
> 
> While we think about the best way to proceed here, you should be able to
> use '-g' (guru mode) to ignore the blacklist.
> 
Ah. Thx. Good to know. :)
Since I compile my own version, I simply commented that line out.

- Alex

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