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| author |   Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> | 2021-05-20 13:50:42 +0000 |
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| committer |   Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> | 2021-06-16 23:35:57 +1000 |
| commit | 18c85964b10b7b78a5cb59a4959a5f82fdc77e4c (patch) | |
| tree | 95bc35968815c5c3cebab5105a7f004c06489b2d /arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c | |
| parent | powerpc/inst: Avoid pointer dereferencing in ppc_inst_equal() (diff) | |
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powerpc: Do not dereference code as 'struct ppc_inst' (uprobe, code-patching, feature-fixups)
'struct ppc_inst' is an internal structure to represent an instruction,
it is not directly the representation of that instruction in text code.
It is not meant to map and dereference code.
Dereferencing code directly through 'struct ppc_inst' has two main issues:
- On powerpc, structs are expected to be 8 bytes aligned while code is
spread every 4 byte.
- Should a non prefixed instruction lie at the end of the page and the
following page not be mapped, it would generate a page fault.
In-memory code must be accessed with ppc_inst_read().
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c9a1201dd0a66b4a0f91f0fb46d9385cbf030feb.1621516826.git.christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c b/arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c index 91bd2000d180..5a4bdede1140 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/feature-fixups.c @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ static int patch_alt_instruction(struct ppc_inst *src, struct ppc_inst *dest, instr = ppc_inst_read(src); - if (instr_is_relative_branch(*src)) { + if (instr_is_relative_branch(ppc_inst_read(src))) { struct ppc_inst *target = (struct ppc_inst *)branch_target(src); /* Branch within the section doesn't need translating */ |