kprobes/x86: Fix the description of __copy_instruction()
authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Wed, 29 Mar 2017 04:58:06 +0000 (13:58 +0900)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 12 Apr 2017 07:23:45 +0000 (09:23 +0200)
Fix the description comment of __copy_instruction() function
since it has already been changed to return the length of the
copied instruction.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: David S . Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ye Xiaolong <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/149076347582.22469.3775133607244923462.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c

index 9eae5a6c58709bc60d549aaf41e4a46700d3af26..81d4dc786daeafa545342a652167c1981e256d7a 100644 (file)
@@ -350,11 +350,10 @@ static int is_IF_modifier(kprobe_opcode_t *insn)
 }
 
 /*
- * Copy an instruction and adjust the displacement if the instruction
- * uses the %rip-relative addressing mode.
- * If it does, Return the address of the 32-bit displacement word.
- * If not, return null.
- * Only applicable to 64-bit x86.
+ * Copy an instruction with recovering modified instruction by kprobes
+ * and adjust the displacement if the instruction uses the %rip-relative
+ * addressing mode.
+ * This returns the length of copied instruction, or 0 if it has an error.
  */
 int __copy_instruction(u8 *dest, u8 *src)
 {
@@ -376,6 +375,7 @@ int __copy_instruction(u8 *dest, u8 *src)
        memcpy(dest, insn.kaddr, length);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
+       /* Only x86_64 has RIP relative instructions */
        if (insn_rip_relative(&insn)) {
                s64 newdisp;
                u8 *disp;