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* [PATCH] x86/kprobes: remove free_insn_page since it is same with the common weak function
@ 2021-06-01  4:08 Barry Song
  2021-06-07  8:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Barry Song @ 2021-06-01  4:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: hpa, tglx, mingo, bp, x86; +Cc: linux-kernel, Barry Song

free_insn_page() in x86 is same with the common weak function in
kernel/kprobes.c. Plus, its comment "Recover page to RW mode before
releasing it" seems insensible to be there since resetting mapping
is done by common code in vfree() of module_memfree().
So drop the strong function and its comment in x86 totally.

Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c
index d3d65545cb8b..3bce67d3a03c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kprobes/core.c
@@ -422,12 +422,6 @@ void *alloc_insn_page(void)
 	return page;
 }
 
-/* Recover page to RW mode before releasing it */
-void free_insn_page(void *page)
-{
-	module_memfree(page);
-}
-
 /* Kprobe x86 instruction emulation - only regs->ip or IF flag modifiers */
 
 static void kprobe_emulate_ifmodifiers(struct kprobe *p, struct pt_regs *regs)
-- 
2.25.1


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* Re: [PATCH] x86/kprobes: remove free_insn_page since it is same with the common weak function
  2021-06-01  4:08 [PATCH] x86/kprobes: remove free_insn_page since it is same with the common weak function Barry Song
@ 2021-06-07  8:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2021-06-07  8:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Barry Song; +Cc: hpa, tglx, mingo, bp, x86, linux-kernel

On Tue, Jun 01, 2021 at 04:08:56PM +1200, Barry Song wrote:
> free_insn_page() in x86 is same with the common weak function in
> kernel/kprobes.c. Plus, its comment "Recover page to RW mode before
> releasing it" seems insensible to be there since resetting mapping
> is done by common code in vfree() of module_memfree().
> So drop the strong function and its comment in x86 totally.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>

It also is the same for s390, so please remove that as well and remove
the __weak.

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