Balbir Singh <bsinghar...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, 2017-06-07 at 00:35 +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote:
>> Hi Balbir,
>>
>> On 2017/06/06 02:29PM, Balbir Singh wrote:
>> > arch_arm/disarm_probe use direct assignment for copying
>> > instructions, replace them with patch_instruction
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <bsinghar...@gmail.com>
>> > ---
>> > arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c | 4 ++--
>> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
>> > index fc43435..b49f8f0 100644
>> > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
>> > +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
>> > @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(arch_prepare_kprobe);
>> >
>> > void arch_arm_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
>> > {
>> > - *p->addr = BREAKPOINT_INSTRUCTION;
>> > + patch_instruction(p->addr, BREAKPOINT_INSTRUCTION);
>> > flush_icache_range((unsigned long) p->addr,
>> > (unsigned long) p->addr + sizeof(kprobe_opcode_t));
>>
>> Do we still need flush_icache_range() after patch_instruction()?
>
> Good catch! No, we don't
I picked this up independently.
cheers
