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From: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>,
	Rusty Lynch <rusty.lynch@intel.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
	maneesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com, srinivasa@in.ibm.com,
	Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>,
	Keshavamurthy Anil S <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Subject: Re: FInal kprobes rollup patches
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:42:13 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071217141213.GA20093@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071215131204.GE9720@elte.hu>

Hi Ingo, Harvey

In file include/asm-x86/kprobes_32.h
typedef u8 kprobe_opcode_t;
hence sizeof(kprobe_opcode_t) turns out to be 1.

Hence 

memcpy(p->ainsn.insn, p->addr, MAX_INSN_SIZE * sizeof(kprobe_opcode_t)); 
is correct.

--
Regards
Srikar


> 
> * Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > If you compare this memcpy from arch_prepare_kprobe in 32/64 bit I'm 
> > almost sure the X86_32 version should be
> > 
> > ... + sizeof(kprobe_opcode_t)
> > 
> > not
> > 
> > ... * sizeof(kprobe_opcode_t)
> 
> good point. I've Cc:-ed the top authors of kprobes.c. Could anyone 
> confirm (or deny) that Harvey found a real kprobes bug here?
> 
> 	Ingo
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-17 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-15  8:45 FInal kprobes rollup patches Harvey Harrison
2007-12-15  8:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-15  9:04   ` Harvey Harrison
2007-12-15 13:12     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-17 14:12       ` Srikar Dronamraju [this message]
2007-12-17 14:13       ` Masami Hiramatsu
2007-12-17 14:30         ` Final " Ingo Molnar
2007-12-17 15:29           ` Masami Hiramatsu
2007-12-17 16:06             ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-17 16:19               ` Masami Hiramatsu
2007-12-17 20:17               ` Harvey Harrison
2007-12-17 14:22       ` FInal " Srikar Dronamraju
2007-12-17 19:20         ` Harvey Harrison
2007-12-17 21:28           ` Masami Hiramatsu
2007-12-17 21:36             ` Harvey Harrison
2007-12-17 21:52               ` Masami Hiramatsu
2007-12-17 22:00                 ` Harvey Harrison
2007-12-17 23:14                   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2007-12-17 23:27                     ` Harvey Harrison
2007-12-17 23:56                       ` Masami Hiramatsu
2007-12-18  0:27                         ` Masami Hiramatsu
2007-12-18  2:15                           ` Harvey Harrison
2007-12-18  3:10                           ` [PATCH] x86: kprobes use stack_addr() macro Harvey Harrison

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