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authorNadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>2019-04-25 17:11:28 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2019-04-30 12:37:53 +0200
commit86a22057127d1c0462a18901421bf1ff89491392 (patch)
treea5ebc1194034b45a449a67140ec5a3520a190a6c /arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c
parentb3fd8e83ada0d51b71a84297480187e2d40e5ded (diff)
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x86/kgdb: Avoid redundant comparison of patched code
text_poke() already ensures that the written value is the correct one and fails if that is not the case. There is no need for an additional comparison. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Cc: <deneen.t.dock@intel.com> Cc: <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com> Cc: <kristen@linux.intel.com> Cc: <linux_dti@icloud.com> Cc: <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190426001143.4983-9-namit@vmware.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c14
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c b/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c
index 2b203ee5b879..13b13311b792 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c
@@ -747,7 +747,6 @@ void kgdb_arch_set_pc(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long ip)
int kgdb_arch_set_breakpoint(struct kgdb_bkpt *bpt)
{
int err;
- char opc[BREAK_INSTR_SIZE];
bpt->type = BP_BREAKPOINT;
err = probe_kernel_read(bpt->saved_instr, (char *)bpt->bpt_addr,
@@ -766,11 +765,6 @@ int kgdb_arch_set_breakpoint(struct kgdb_bkpt *bpt)
return -EBUSY;
text_poke_kgdb((void *)bpt->bpt_addr, arch_kgdb_ops.gdb_bpt_instr,
BREAK_INSTR_SIZE);
- err = probe_kernel_read(opc, (char *)bpt->bpt_addr, BREAK_INSTR_SIZE);
- if (err)
- return err;
- if (memcmp(opc, arch_kgdb_ops.gdb_bpt_instr, BREAK_INSTR_SIZE))
- return -EINVAL;
bpt->type = BP_POKE_BREAKPOINT;
return err;
@@ -778,9 +772,6 @@ int kgdb_arch_set_breakpoint(struct kgdb_bkpt *bpt)
int kgdb_arch_remove_breakpoint(struct kgdb_bkpt *bpt)
{
- int err;
- char opc[BREAK_INSTR_SIZE];
-
if (bpt->type != BP_POKE_BREAKPOINT)
goto knl_write;
/*
@@ -791,10 +782,7 @@ int kgdb_arch_remove_breakpoint(struct kgdb_bkpt *bpt)
goto knl_write;
text_poke_kgdb((void *)bpt->bpt_addr, bpt->saved_instr,
BREAK_INSTR_SIZE);
- err = probe_kernel_read(opc, (char *)bpt->bpt_addr, BREAK_INSTR_SIZE);
- if (err || memcmp(opc, bpt->saved_instr, BREAK_INSTR_SIZE))
- goto knl_write;
- return err;
+ return 0;
knl_write:
return probe_kernel_write((char *)bpt->bpt_addr,