From: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
To: Nam Cao <namcaov@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>,
linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
guoren@kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv: kprobes: allow writing to x0
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 12:04:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZO5BVWFbAwXLf0WS@ghost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230829182500.61875-1-namcaov@gmail.com>
On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 08:25:00PM +0200, Nam Cao wrote:
> Instructions can write to x0, so we should simulate these instructions
> normally.
>
> Currently, the kernel hangs if an instruction who writes to x0 is
> simulated.
>
> Fixes: c22b0bcb1dd0 ("riscv: Add kprobes supported")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcaov@gmail.com>
> ---
> arch/riscv/kernel/probes/simulate-insn.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/simulate-insn.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/simulate-insn.c
> index d3099d67816d..6c166029079c 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/simulate-insn.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/probes/simulate-insn.c
> @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ static inline bool rv_insn_reg_set_val(struct pt_regs *regs, u32 index,
> unsigned long val)
> {
> if (index == 0)
> - return false;
> + return true;
> else if (index <= 31)
> *((unsigned long *)regs + index) = val;
> else
> --
> 2.34.1
>
>
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Thank you for this change.
simulate_auipc would previously fail with an rd = 0 which made sense
because auipc it is defined as a HINT in the riscv spec when rd = 0,
but QEMU and spike don't say it is an illegal instruction so I think
it is okay to make this change.
Reviewed-by: Charlie Jenkins <charlie@rivosinc.com>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-29 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-29 18:25 [PATCH] riscv: kprobes: allow writing to x0 Nam Cao
2023-08-29 19:04 ` Charlie Jenkins [this message]
2023-08-30 1:37 ` Guo Ren
2023-11-06 15:00 ` patchwork-bot+linux-riscv
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