[PATCH v3 3/3] arm64: kprobe: disable probe of fault prone ptrauth instruction

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 05:57:49PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 03:40:26PM +0100, Dave Martin wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 10:40:29AM +0530, Amit Daniel Kachhap wrote:

> > > -		 * The HINT instruction is is problematic when single-stepping,
> > > +		 * The HINT instruction is problematic when single-stepping,

> > Nit: doesn't matter too much, but ideally this should be a separate
> > patch (or just don't bother).

> Agreed. I also think if we change this at all we should drop the comment
> entirely: it's somewhat misleading given it implies NOP is the only HINT
> space instruction that can be sfely stepped, and doesn't suggest *why*
> hints might be proboematic.

Given the rename of _is_nop() to _is_steppable_hint() we should probably
push an explanation to _is_steppable_hint() rather than having something
here but I do think it's worth having something more than just the plain
code.  I do agree that the current comment really doesn't say much
though.
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