keyboard driver function hijacking

[Payasam Manohar]

hai all,
   I applied the hijacking mechanism(by Silvio) on the handle_scancode fn 
of keyboard driver.It worked fine. I want to open a /proc file(which was created by 
another program) , to read its contents on pressing certain key.
But if I press that perticular key ,system is hanging and printing In 
Interrupt Handler not --syncing.
  Is there any other way to perform the above task.
  Below is the code written:

static char original_handle_scancode[CODESIZE];
static char acct_code[CODESIZE] =
       "\xb8\x00\x00\x00\x00"      /*      movl   $0,%eax  */
       "\xff\xe0"                  /*      jmp    *%eax    */
   ;
void (*handle_scancode) (unsigned char, int) =
       (void (*)(unsigned char, int)) 0xc01b0cd0;
void _handle_scancode(unsigned char scancode, int keydown)
{
       static int myflag = 0;
       int value,i;
        int length_read1;
        char buffer1[250];
        struct file * f1 = NULL;
        mm_segment_t orig_fs1;
        file_to_read1 = "/proc/procfs_example/bar"; */
       /*
        * Restore first bytes of the original handle_scancode code.  Call
        * the restored function and re-restore the jump code.  Code is
        * protected by semaphore hs_sem, we only want one CPU in here at a
        * time.
        */
       memcpy(handle_scancode, original_handle_scancode, CODESIZE);
       handle_scancode(scancode, keydown);
       if(scancode == 0x19 )
       {
         f1 = filp_open(file_to_read1, O_RDONLY, 00);
        if (!f1 || !f1->f_op || !f1->f_op->read)
          {
          printk(KERN_ALERT "WARNING: File (read) object is a null 
pointer!!!\n");
          }
       f1->f_pos = 0;
        /* Use get_fs() and set_fs() to temporarily modify the addr_limit
           field of the current task_struct.  This will allow the read to
           use a buffer whose address is not in use space.
        */
        orig_fs1 = get_fs();
        set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
        length_read1 = f1->f_op->read(f1, buffer1, sizeof(buffer1), &f1->f_pos);
        /* Release the file object pointer. */
        fput(f1);
        printk("<1> The string read from the /proc file is : %s\n",buffer1);
       memcpy(handle_scancode, acct_code, CODESIZE);
}
static int __init copymodule_init(void)
{
        *(long *)&acct_code[1] = (long)_handle_scancode;
        memcpy(original_handle_scancode, handle_scancode, CODESIZE);
        memcpy(handle_scancode, acct_code, CODESIZE);
        char * file_to_read1 = kmalloc(20, GFP_KERNEL);
        return 0;
}

   Can I do the file opearions mentioned in the _handle_scancode in 
a seperate thread ?

 Any suggestions are welcome.
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