[PATCH v5 15/21] powerpc: Make test_translate_branch() independent of instruction length

Jordan Niethe jniethe5 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 18:09:30 AEST 2020


test_translate_branch() uses two pointers to instructions within a
buffer, p and q, to test patch_branch(). The pointer arithmetic done on
them assumes a size of 4. This will not work if the instruction length
changes. Instead do the arithmetic relative to the void * to the buffer.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5 at gmail.com>
---
v4: New to series
---
 arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c b/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
index ba08f3815d00..c329ad657302 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/code-patching.c
@@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ static void __init test_branch_bform(void)
 static void __init test_translate_branch(void)
 {
 	unsigned long addr;
-	struct ppc_inst *p, *q;
+	void *p, *q;
 	struct ppc_inst instr;
 	void *buf;
 
@@ -583,7 +583,7 @@ static void __init test_translate_branch(void)
 	addr = (unsigned long)p;
 	patch_branch(p, addr, 0);
 	check(instr_is_branch_to_addr(p, addr));
-	q = p + 1;
+	q = p + 4;
 	translate_branch(&instr, q, p);
 	patch_instruction(q, instr);
 	check(instr_is_branch_to_addr(q, addr));
@@ -639,7 +639,7 @@ static void __init test_translate_branch(void)
 	create_cond_branch(&instr, p, addr, 0);
 	patch_instruction(p, instr);
 	check(instr_is_branch_to_addr(p, addr));
-	q = p + 1;
+	q = buf + 4;
 	translate_branch(&instr, q, p);
 	patch_instruction(q, instr);
 	check(instr_is_branch_to_addr(q, addr));
-- 
2.17.1



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