(2015/02/09 21:45), Wang Nan wrote:
> x86 kprobes is unable to probe at 2 bytes nop like:
^^^^^ boost
>
> 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.
Anyway, this looks good to me.
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Thank you!
>
> Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <[email protected]>
> ---
> 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 */
>
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Masami HIRAMATSU
Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Research Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: [email protected]
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