Re: [PATCH] RISC-V: probes: Treat the instruction stream as host-endian

[Guo Ren]

Acked-by: Guo Ren <guoren@xxxxxxxxxx>

On 2021/1/23 上午11:34, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> From: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Neither of these are actually correct: the instruction stream is defined
> (for versions of the ISA manual newer than 2.2) as a stream of 16-bit
> little-endian parcels, which is different than just being little-endian.
> In theory we should represent this as a type, but we don't have any
> concrete plans for the big endian stuff so it doesn't seem worth the
> time -- we've got variants of this all over the place.
>
> Instead I'm just dropping the unnecessary type conversion, which is a
> NOP on LE systems but causes an sparse error as the types are all mixed
> up.
>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   arch/riscv/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c | 2 +-
>   arch/riscv/kernel/probes/kprobes.c     | 2 +-
>   2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c
> index 0876c304ca77..0ed043acc882 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/decode-insn.c
> @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
>   enum probe_insn __kprobes
>   riscv_probe_decode_insn(probe_opcode_t *addr, struct arch_probe_insn *api)
>   {
> -	probe_opcode_t insn = le32_to_cpu(*addr);
> +	probe_opcode_t insn = *addr;
>   
>   	/*
>   	 * Reject instructions list:
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/kprobes.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
> index e60893bd87db..a2ec18662fee 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
> @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ int __kprobes arch_prepare_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
>   	}
>   
>   	/* copy instruction */
> -	p->opcode = le32_to_cpu(*p->addr);
> +	p->opcode = *p->addr;
>   
>   	/* decode instruction */
>   	switch (riscv_probe_decode_insn(p->addr, &p->ainsn.api)) {