Re: [PATCH v4 4/6] arm64: Kprobes instruction simulation support

From: Pratyush Anand
Date: Wed Jan 14 2015 - 04:32:40 EST


On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 9:33 AM, David Long <dave.long@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Sandeepa Prabhu <sandeepa.prabhu@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Add support for AArch64 instruction simulation in kprobes.
>
> Kprobes needs simulation of instructions that cannot be stepped
> from different memory location, e.g.: those instructions
> that uses PC-relative addressing. In simulation, the behaviour
> of the instruction is implemented using a copy of pt_regs.
>
> Following instruction catagories are simulated:
> - All branching instructions(conditional, register, and immediate)
> - Literal access instructions(load-literal, adr/adrp)
>
> Conditional execution is limited to branching instructions in
> ARM v8. If conditions at PSTATE do not match the condition fields
> of opcode, the instruction is effectively NOP. Kprobes considers
> this case as 'miss'.
> changes since v3:
> from David A. Long:
> 1) Fix incorrect simulate_ldrsw_literal() semantics.
> 2) Use instruction test functions instead of private parse table.
> from Will Cohen:
> 3) Remove PC adjustments when simulating an instruction.
> 4) Fix displacement calculations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sandeepa Prabhu <sandeepa.prabhu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: William Cohen <wcohen@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David A. Long <dave.long@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

[...]

> static bool aarch64_insn_is_steppable(u32 insn)
> {
> @@ -60,6 +130,32 @@ arm_kprobe_decode_insn(kprobe_opcode_t insn, struct arch_specific_insn *asi)
> */
> if (aarch64_insn_is_steppable(insn))
> return INSN_GOOD;
> +
> + asi->prepare = prepare_none;
> +
> + if (aarch64_insn_is_bcond(insn)) {
> + asi->prepare = prepare_bcond;
> + asi->handler = simulate_b_cond;
> + } else if (aarch64_insn_is_cb(insn)) {
> + asi->prepare = prepare_cbz_cbnz;
> + asi->handler = simulate_cbz_cbnz;
> + } else if (aarch64_insn_is_tb(insn)) {
> + asi->prepare = prepare_tbz_tbnz;
> + asi->handler = simulate_tbz_tbnz;
> + } else if (aarch64_insn_is_adr(insn))

aarch64_insn_is_adr should be modified to aarch64_insn_is_adr_adrp

> + asi->handler = simulate_adr_adrp;
> + else if (aarch64_insn_is_b_bl(insn))
> + asi->handler = simulate_b_bl;
> + else if (aarch64_insn_is_ldr_lit(insn))
> + asi->handler = simulate_ldr_literal;
> + else if (aarch64_insn_is_ldrsw_lit(insn))
> + asi->handler = simulate_ldrsw_literal;

also

else if (aarch64_insn_is_br_blr(insn) || aarch64_insn_is_ret(insn))
asi->handler = simulate_br_blr_ret;


~Pratyush
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