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kprobes/x86: Fix the description of __copy_instruction()

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>
Masami Hiramatsu 8 年之前
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共有 1 個文件被更改,包括 5 次插入5 次删除
  1. 5 5
      arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c

+ 5 - 5
arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c

@@ -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;