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authorAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>2012-06-08 09:32:57 (GMT)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2012-06-08 10:22:27 (GMT)
commit7eb9ba5ed312ec6ed9d22259c5da1acb7cf4bd29 (patch)
treede796c5ae68abfbb951b0c474789848cbcfd788a /arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c
parent70ab7003dec58afeae7f5d681dfa309b3a259f03 (diff)
downloadlinux-7eb9ba5ed312ec6ed9d22259c5da1acb7cf4bd29.tar.xz
uprobes: Pass probed vaddr to arch_uprobe_analyze_insn()
On RISC architectures like powerpc, instructions are fixed size. Instruction analysis on such platforms is just a matter of (insn % 4). Pass the vaddr at which the uprobe is to be inserted so that arch_uprobe_analyze_insn() can flag misaligned registration requests. Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakaynahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: michael@ellerman.id.au Cc: antonb@thinktux.localdomain Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Cc: oleg@redhat.com Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120608093257.GG13409@in.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c')
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c b/arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c
index dc4e910..36fd420 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c
@@ -409,9 +409,10 @@ static int validate_insn_bits(struct arch_uprobe *auprobe, struct mm_struct *mm,
* arch_uprobe_analyze_insn - instruction analysis including validity and fixups.
* @mm: the probed address space.
* @arch_uprobe: the probepoint information.
+ * @addr: virtual address at which to install the probepoint
* Return 0 on success or a -ve number on error.
*/
-int arch_uprobe_analyze_insn(struct arch_uprobe *auprobe, struct mm_struct *mm)
+int arch_uprobe_analyze_insn(struct arch_uprobe *auprobe, struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
{
int ret;
struct insn insn;