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* [PATCH] kprobes: x86: mark 2 bytes NOP as boostable.
@ 2015-02-09 12:45 Wang Nan
  2015-02-09 23:34 ` Masami Hiramatsu
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Wang Nan @ 2015-02-09 12:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: masami.hiramatsu.pt, tglx, mingo, x86; +Cc: linux-kernel, lizefan

x86 kprobes is unable to probe at 2 bytes nop like:

nopl 0x0(%rax,%rax,1)

which is 0x0f 0x1f 0x44 0x00 0x00.

Such nops have exactly 5 bytes which is able to hold a relative jmp
instruction. Boosting them should be obviously safe.

This patch enable boosting such nops by simply updating
twobyte_is_boostable[] array.

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c
index 98f654d..6a1146e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ static volatile u32 twobyte_is_boostable[256 / 32] = {
 	/*      0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f          */
 	/*      ----------------------------------------------          */
 	W(0x00, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) | /* 00 */
-	W(0x10, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) , /* 10 */
+	W(0x10, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1) , /* 10 */
 	W(0x20, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) | /* 20 */
 	W(0x30, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) , /* 30 */
 	W(0x40, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1) | /* 40 */
-- 
1.8.4


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