[PATCH 1/5] powerpc/kprobes: Some cosmetic updates to try_to_emulate()

Kamalesh Babulal kamalesh at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Sep 14 16:16:06 AEST 2017


On Thursday 14 September 2017 02:50 AM, Naveen N. Rao wrote:
> 1. This is only used in kprobes.c, so make it static.
> 2. Remove the un-necessary (ret == 0) comparison in the else clause.
>
> Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh at linux.vnet.ibm.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 367494dc67d9..c2a6ab38a67f 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
> @@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ void arch_prepare_kretprobe(struct kretprobe_instance *ri, struct pt_regs *regs)
>  }
>  NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(arch_prepare_kretprobe);
>
> -int try_to_emulate(struct kprobe *p, struct pt_regs *regs)
> +static int try_to_emulate(struct kprobe *p, struct pt_regs *regs)
>  {
>  	int ret;
>  	unsigned int insn = *p->ainsn.insn;
> @@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ int try_to_emulate(struct kprobe *p, struct pt_regs *regs)
>  		 */
>  		printk("Can't step on instruction %x\n", insn);
>  		BUG();
> -	} else if (ret == 0)
> +	} else
>  		/* This instruction can't be boosted */
>  		p->ainsn.boostable = -1;
>




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