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authorJordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com>2020-05-06 13:40:33 +1000
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>2020-05-19 00:10:37 +1000
commit7ba68b2172c19031fdc2a2caf37328edd146e299 (patch)
tree308fb5c5231ef35c900818c159b58b7410cb3d18 /arch/powerpc/lib
parentf8faaffaa7d99028e457ef2d1dcb43a98f736938 (diff)
powerpc: Add a probe_user_read_inst() function
Introduce a probe_user_read_inst() function to use in cases where probe_user_read() is used for getting an instruction. This will be more useful for prefixed instructions. Signed-off-by: Jordan Niethe <jniethe5@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au> [mpe: Don't write to *inst on error, fold in __user annotations] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200506034050.24806-14-jniethe5@gmail.com
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/lib')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/lib/Makefile2
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/lib/inst.c20
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/lib/Makefile
index b8de3be10eb4..546591848219 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/lib/Makefile
+++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/Makefile
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ CFLAGS_code-patching.o += -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING
CFLAGS_feature-fixups.o += -DDISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING
endif
-obj-y += alloc.o code-patching.o feature-fixups.o pmem.o
+obj-y += alloc.o code-patching.o feature-fixups.o pmem.o inst.o
ifndef CONFIG_KASAN
obj-y += string.o memcmp_$(BITS).o
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/lib/inst.c b/arch/powerpc/lib/inst.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..605220dbb6ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/powerpc/lib/inst.c
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+/*
+ * Copyright 2020, IBM Corporation.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#include <asm/inst.h>
+
+int probe_user_read_inst(struct ppc_inst *inst,
+ struct ppc_inst __user *nip)
+{
+ unsigned int val;
+ int err;
+
+ err = probe_user_read(&val, nip, sizeof(val));
+ if (!err)
+ *inst = ppc_inst(val);
+
+ return err;
+}