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Linux Kernel Programming Part 2 - Char Device Drivers and Kernel Synchronization

You're reading from   Linux Kernel Programming Part 2 - Char Device Drivers and Kernel Synchronization Create user-kernel interfaces, work with peripheral I/O, and handle hardware interrupts

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801079518
Length 452 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kaiwan N. Billimoria Kaiwan N. Billimoria
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Preface 1. Section 1: Character Device Driver Basics
2. Writing a Simple misc Character Device Driver FREE CHAPTER 3. User-Kernel Communication Pathways 4. Working with Hardware I/O Memory 5. Handling Hardware Interrupts 6. Working with Kernel Timers, Threads, and Workqueues 7. Section 2: Delving Deeper
8. Kernel Synchronization - Part 1 9. Kernel Synchronization - Part 2 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Seeing a kernel bug – an Oops!

Let's make it happen – a kernel bug! Exciting, yes!?

Okay, to create a kernel bug, we must ensure that when we remove (unload) the kernel module, the API that cleans up (deletes) all the debugfs files, debugfs_remove_recursive(), is not invoked. Thus, after each module is removed, our debugfs directory and files seem to be present! However, if you try and operate on – read/write – any of them, they'll be in an orphaned state and, hence, upon trying to dereference its metadata, the internal debugfs code paths will perform an invalid memory reference, resulting in a (kernel-level) bug.

In the kernel space, a bug is a very serious thing indeed; in theory, it should never, ever happen! This is called an Oops; as part of handling this, an internal kernel function is called, which dumps useful diagnostic information via printk to the in-memory kernel log buffer, as well as to the console device (on production...

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