From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: cov@codeaurora.org (Christopher Covington)
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 12:15:42 -0500
Subject: [RFC PATCH 01/11] ARM: kprobes: directly modify code if
 kprobe is not initialized.
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On 01/07/2015 02:35 AM, Wang Nan wrote:
> If kprobe is optimized before kprobe is initialized, there should
> be only one core, the probed instruction is not armed with breakpoint,
> so simply patch text is okay.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/probes/kprobes/opt-arm.c | 11 ++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/probes/kprobes/opt-arm.c b/arch/arm/probes/kprobes/opt-arm.c
> index 15b37c0..a021474 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/probes/kprobes/opt-arm.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/probes/kprobes/opt-arm.c
> @@ -325,8 +325,17 @@ void __kprobes arch_optimize_kprobes(struct list_head *oplist)
>  		 * Similar to __arch_disarm_kprobe, operations which
>  		 * removing breakpoints must be wrapped by stop_machine
>  		 * to avoid racing.
> +		 *
> +		 * If this function is called before kprobes initialized,
> +		 * the kprobe should be an early kprobe, the instruction
> +		 * is not armed with breakpoint. There should be only
> +		 * one core now, so directly __patch_text is enough.
>  		 */
> -		kprobes_remove_breakpoint(op->kp.addr, insn);
> +		if (unlikely(!kprobes_initialized)) {
> +			BUG_ON(!(op->kp.flags & KPROBE_FLAG_EARLY));
> +			__patch_text(op->kp.addr, insn);
> +		} else
> +			kprobes_remove_breakpoint(op->kp.addr, insn);

"...if only one branch of a conditional statement is a single statement ...
use braces in both branches".

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/CodingStyle

>  
>  		list_del_init(&op->list);
>  	}
> 

Regards,
Chris

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