Re: [PATCH] x86/mm: minor warning message cleanup

[Borislav Petkov]

On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 01:56:31PM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> Capitalize R in RIP.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/mm/extable.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/extable.c b/arch/x86/mm/extable.c
> index 832b98f822be..bef3aa199f94 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/extable.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/extable.c
> @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ex_handler_rdmsr_unsafe);
>  bool ex_handler_wrmsr_unsafe(const struct exception_table_entry *fixup,
>  			     struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr)
>  {
> -	if (pr_warn_once("unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0x%x (tried to write 0x%08x%08x) at rIP: 0x%lx (%pF)\n",
> +	if (pr_warn_once("unchecked MSR access error: WRMSR to 0x%x (tried to write 0x%08x%08x) at RIP: 0x%lx (%pF)\n",

Nope:

rIP:	16-bit, 32-bit, or 64-bit instruction-pointer register. Compare RIP.
RIP:	64-bit instruction-pointer register.

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    Boris.

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