[PATCH 0/5] ARM: kprobes: Fixes for ARM instruction emulation (part 2)

Tixy tixy at yxit.co.uk
Thu Apr 7 08:25:14 EDT 2011


(This is a second set of patches)

When kprobes are inserted into code an ARM instruction is replaced
by a breakpoint. When this is hit, the original instruction must be
emulated out-of-line. This patchset fixes some more bugs in the
instruction decoding and emulation.

[PATCH 1/5] ARM: kprobes: Reject probing MRS instructions which read SPSR
[PATCH 2/5] ARM: kprobes: Fix emulation of MRS instruction
[PATCH 3/5] ARM: kprobes: Reject probing of instructions which write to PC unpredictably.
[PATCH 4/5] ARM: kprobes: Fix error in comment
[PATCH 5/5] ARM: kprobes: Reject probing of undefined multiply instructions



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