Commit-ID:  129d17e8e8daf50f8aff4941fb4a9cda027ab9cf
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/129d17e8e8daf50f8aff4941fb4a9cda027ab9cf
Author:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhira...@kernel.org>
AuthorDate: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 13:58:06 +0900
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 09:23:45 +0200

kprobes/x86: Fix the description of __copy_instruction()

Fix the description comment of __copy_instruction() function
since it has already been changed to return the length of the
copied instruction.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhira...@kernel.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ana...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabi...@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamur...@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brge...@gmail.com>
Cc: David S . Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlas...@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ye Xiaolong <xiaolong...@intel.com>
Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/149076347582.22469.3775133607244923462.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c
index 9eae5a6..81d4dc7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c
@@ -350,11 +350,10 @@ static int is_IF_modifier(kprobe_opcode_t *insn)
 }
 
 /*
- * Copy an instruction and adjust the displacement if the instruction
- * uses the %rip-relative addressing mode.
- * If it does, Return the address of the 32-bit displacement word.
- * If not, return null.
- * Only applicable to 64-bit x86.
+ * Copy an instruction with recovering modified instruction by kprobes
+ * and adjust the displacement if the instruction uses the %rip-relative
+ * addressing mode.
+ * This returns the length of copied instruction, or 0 if it has an error.
  */
 int __copy_instruction(u8 *dest, u8 *src)
 {
@@ -376,6 +375,7 @@ int __copy_instruction(u8 *dest, u8 *src)
        memcpy(dest, insn.kaddr, length);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+       /* Only x86_64 has RIP relative instructions */
        if (insn_rip_relative(&insn)) {
                s64 newdisp;
                u8 *disp;

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