Re: [RFC PATCH v2 4/6] uprobes/x86: Emulate rip-relative call's

From: Masami Hiramatsu
Date: Thu Apr 10 2014 - 09:15:49 EST


(2014/04/10 21:53), Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On 04/09/2014 09:44 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>> +static void ttt_clear_displacement(struct arch_uprobe *auprobe, struct insn *insn)
>
> Branch instruction's offset isn't called "displacement"
> on x86.
>
> How about ttt_clear_branch_offset?

I like his idea. "displacement" on x86 is so confused especially
with using x86 insn decoder.

Thank you,

>
>> +{
>> + /*
>> + * Turn this insn into "call 1f; 1:", this is what we will execute
>> + * out-of-line if ->emulate() fails.
>> + *
>> + * In the likely case this will lead to arch_uprobe_abort_xol(), but
>> + * see the comment in ->emulate(). So we need to ensure that the new
>> + * ->ip can't fall into non-canonical area and trigger #GP.
>> + *
>> + * We could turn it into (say) "pushf", but then we would need to
>> + * divorce ->insn[] and ->ixol[]. We need to preserve the 1st byte
>> + * of ->insn[] for set_orig_insn().
>> + */
>> + memset(auprobe->insn + insn_offset_immediate(insn),
>> + 0, insn->immediate.nbytes);
>> +}
>
>


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Masami HIRAMATSU
Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx


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