Commit 129d17e8 authored by Masami Hiramatsu's avatar Masami Hiramatsu Committed by Ingo Molnar

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: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: David S . Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ye Xiaolong <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/149076347582.22469.3775133607244923462.stgit@devboxSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent bd0b9067
...@@ -350,11 +350,10 @@ static int is_IF_modifier(kprobe_opcode_t *insn) ...@@ -350,11 +350,10 @@ static int is_IF_modifier(kprobe_opcode_t *insn)
} }
/* /*
* Copy an instruction and adjust the displacement if the instruction * Copy an instruction with recovering modified instruction by kprobes
* uses the %rip-relative addressing mode. * and adjust the displacement if the instruction uses the %rip-relative
* If it does, Return the address of the 32-bit displacement word. * addressing mode.
* If not, return null. * This returns the length of copied instruction, or 0 if it has an error.
* Only applicable to 64-bit x86.
*/ */
int __copy_instruction(u8 *dest, u8 *src) int __copy_instruction(u8 *dest, u8 *src)
{ {
...@@ -376,6 +375,7 @@ int __copy_instruction(u8 *dest, u8 *src) ...@@ -376,6 +375,7 @@ int __copy_instruction(u8 *dest, u8 *src)
memcpy(dest, insn.kaddr, length); memcpy(dest, insn.kaddr, length);
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
/* Only x86_64 has RIP relative instructions */
if (insn_rip_relative(&insn)) { if (insn_rip_relative(&insn)) {
s64 newdisp; s64 newdisp;
u8 *disp; u8 *disp;
......
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