Re: FInal kprobes rollup patches

[Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

Hi Ingo, Harvey

In file include/asm-x86/kprobes_32.h
typedef u8 kprobe_opcode_t;
hence sizeof(kprobe_opcode_t) turns out to be 1.

Hence 

memcpy(p->ainsn.insn, p->addr, MAX_INSN_SIZE * sizeof(kprobe_opcode_t)); 
is correct.

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Regards
Srikar


> 
> * Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > If you compare this memcpy from arch_prepare_kprobe in 32/64 bit I'm 
> > almost sure the X86_32 version should be
> > 
> > ... + sizeof(kprobe_opcode_t)
> > 
> > not
> > 
> > ... * sizeof(kprobe_opcode_t)
> 
> good point. I've Cc:-ed the top authors of kprobes.c. Could anyone 
> confirm (or deny) that Harvey found a real kprobes bug here?
> 
> 	Ingo
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