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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>2019-02-12 16:43:51 +0100
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2019-03-19 13:43:09 +0100
commitb5586163de1ce90317cd4037f69b14105be9f656 (patch)
tree6da613aaa8218efaafd775fb358c99b77cc271cf /arch/arm64
parentarm64: kprobes: Move extable address check into arch_prepare_kprobe() (diff)
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arm64: kprobes: Remove unneeded RODATA check
Remove unneeded RODATA check from arch_prepare_kprobe(). Since check_kprobe_address_safe() already ensured that the probe address is in kernel text, we don't need to check whether the address in RODATA or not. That must be always false. Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm64')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c6
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
index 16bc3b2e9351..b168873147f5 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/probes/kprobes.c
@@ -91,8 +91,6 @@ static void __kprobes arch_simulate_insn(struct kprobe *p, struct pt_regs *regs)
int __kprobes arch_prepare_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
{
unsigned long probe_addr = (unsigned long)p->addr;
- extern char __start_rodata[];
- extern char __end_rodata[];
if (probe_addr & 0x3)
return -EINVAL;
@@ -106,10 +104,6 @@ int __kprobes arch_prepare_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
if (search_exception_tables(probe_addr))
return -EINVAL;
- if (probe_addr >= (unsigned long) __start_rodata &&
- probe_addr <= (unsigned long) __end_rodata)
- return -EINVAL;
-
/* decode instruction */
switch (arm_kprobe_decode_insn(p->addr, &p->ainsn)) {
case INSN_REJECTED: /* insn not supported */