On 01/16/14 04:18, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote:
On Wed, 2014-01-15 at 14:31 -0500, David Long wrote:
On 12/20/13 09:58, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote:
On Sun, 2013-12-15 at 23:08 -0500, David Long wrote:
[...]
{
#ifdef CONFIG_THUMB2_KERNEL
if (thumb) {
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ set_emulated_insn(probes_opcode_t insn, struct
arch_specific_insn *asi,
* non-zero value, the corresponding nibble in pinsn is validated and
modified
* according to the type.
*/
-static bool __kprobes decode_regs(probes_opcode_t *pinsn, u32 regs)
+static bool __kprobes decode_regs(probes_opcode_t *pinsn, u32 regs, bool
modify)
{
probes_opcode_t insn = *pinsn;
probes_opcode_t mask = 0xf; /* Start at least significant nibble */
@@ -317,9 +317,16 @@ static bool __kprobes decode_regs(probes_opcode_t *pinsn,
u32 regs)
/* Replace value of nibble with new register number... */
insn &= ~mask;
insn |= new_bits & mask;
+ if (modify) {
+ /* Replace value of nibble with new register number */
+ insn &= ~mask;
+ insn |= new_bits & mask;
+ }
Huh? As is, the above addition doesn't do anything because insn has
already been modified. I guess you played with the idea that you needed
to avoid changing insn (you don't) and then didn't undo the experiment
quite right. :-)
The conditional modification of the instruction was part of Rabin's
original work for uprobes, but I messed up the merge from an earlier
working version of my patches. My intention was/is to delete the old
unconditional code. Sounds like maybe you disagree though. The intent
is to only modify the instruction in the kprobes case.
'insn' is the local variable containing the instruction value we're
processing. It doesn't matter if we change that, we just need to avoid
updating the instruction in memory, which the code in the next chunk
already correctly checks for...
}
- *pinsn = insn;
+ if (modify)
+ *pinsn = insn;
+
return true;
So only one of these 'if (modify)' checks is required for code
correctness, and I suggest keeping the second one as it's more explicit
and defensive.
OK, I see your point. I shall simplify the code as you have suggested.
-dl
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