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From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] arm64: insn: Report PAC and BTI instructions as NOPs
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:09:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200430160928.GD25258@willie-the-truck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200428172433.48830-4-broonie@kernel.org>

On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 06:24:33PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> In order to allow probing of PAC and BTI instructions without more
> specialized support recognize them as NOPs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c
> index fd77cdd87c47..82afc582d29a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/insn.c
> @@ -57,7 +57,27 @@ bool __kprobes aarch64_insn_is_nop(u32 insn)
>  	if (!aarch64_insn_is_hint(insn))
>  		return false;
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * The PAC and BTI instructons are not strictly NOPs but until
> +	 * better support is added we can treat them as such.
> +	 */
>  	switch (insn & 0xFE0) {

Are you deliberately omitting XPACLRI? If so, maybe add a comment to say
why, since it looks a bit weird without it.

Will

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-30 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-28 17:24 [PATCH v2 0/3] arm64: Make NOP handling a whitelist Mark Brown
2020-04-28 17:24 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] arm64: insn: Don't assume unrecognized HINTs are NOPs Mark Brown
2020-04-30 16:08   ` Will Deacon
2020-04-28 17:24 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] arm64: insn: Add constants for PAC and BTI instruction decode Mark Brown
2020-04-30 16:07   ` Will Deacon
2020-04-30 16:45     ` Mark Brown
2020-04-28 17:24 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] arm64: insn: Report PAC and BTI instructions as NOPs Mark Brown
2020-04-30 16:09   ` Will Deacon [this message]
2020-04-30 17:16     ` Mark Brown
2020-04-30 17:20       ` Will Deacon
2020-04-30 17:36         ` Mark Brown

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