[PATCH v2 1/2] arm64: patching: Rename aarch64_insn_copy to text_poke.

Dylan Hatch dylanbhatch at google.com
Fri Apr 11 18:09:38 PDT 2025


Match the name and signature of the equivalent in the x86 text-poke API.
Making the src pointer const also allows this function to be
interchangeable with memcpy().

Signed-off-by: Dylan Hatch <dylanbhatch at google.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/text-patching.h |  2 +-
 arch/arm64/kernel/patching.c           | 12 ++++++------
 arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c          |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/text-patching.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/text-patching.h
index 587bdb91ab7a6..450d806d11109 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/text-patching.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/text-patching.h
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ int aarch64_insn_write(void *addr, u32 insn);
 
 int aarch64_insn_write_literal_u64(void *addr, u64 val);
 void *aarch64_insn_set(void *dst, u32 insn, size_t len);
-void *aarch64_insn_copy(void *dst, void *src, size_t len);
+void *text_poke(void *dst, const void *src, size_t len);
 
 int aarch64_insn_patch_text_nosync(void *addr, u32 insn);
 int aarch64_insn_patch_text(void *addrs[], u32 insns[], int cnt);
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/patching.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/patching.c
index 1041bc67a3eee..e07dc32620053 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/patching.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/patching.c
@@ -102,9 +102,9 @@ noinstr int aarch64_insn_write_literal_u64(void *addr, u64 val)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-typedef void text_poke_f(void *dst, void *src, size_t patched, size_t len);
+typedef void text_poke_f(void *dst, const void *src, size_t patched, size_t len);
 
-static void *__text_poke(text_poke_f func, void *addr, void *src, size_t len)
+static void *__text_poke(text_poke_f func, void *addr, const void *src, size_t len)
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
 	size_t patched = 0;
@@ -132,12 +132,12 @@ static void *__text_poke(text_poke_f func, void *addr, void *src, size_t len)
 	return addr;
 }
 
-static void text_poke_memcpy(void *dst, void *src, size_t patched, size_t len)
+static void text_poke_memcpy(void *dst, const void *src, size_t patched, size_t len)
 {
 	copy_to_kernel_nofault(dst, src + patched, len);
 }
 
-static void text_poke_memset(void *dst, void *src, size_t patched, size_t len)
+static void text_poke_memset(void *dst, const void *src, size_t patched, size_t len)
 {
 	u32 c = *(u32 *)src;
 
@@ -145,14 +145,14 @@ static void text_poke_memset(void *dst, void *src, size_t patched, size_t len)
 }
 
 /**
- * aarch64_insn_copy - Copy instructions into (an unused part of) RX memory
+ * text_poke - Copy instructions into (an unused part of) RX memory
  * @dst: address to modify
  * @src: source of the copy
  * @len: length to copy
  *
  * Useful for JITs to dump new code blocks into unused regions of RX memory.
  */
-noinstr void *aarch64_insn_copy(void *dst, void *src, size_t len)
+noinstr void *text_poke(void *dst, const void *src, size_t len)
 {
 	/* A64 instructions must be word aligned */
 	if ((uintptr_t)dst & 0x3)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c b/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
index 70d7c89d3ac90..b5be90edff410 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/net/bpf_jit_comp.c
@@ -2047,7 +2047,7 @@ bool bpf_jit_supports_kfunc_call(void)
 
 void *bpf_arch_text_copy(void *dst, void *src, size_t len)
 {
-	if (!aarch64_insn_copy(dst, src, len))
+	if (!text_poke(dst, src, len))
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 	return dst;
 }
-- 
2.49.0.604.gff1f9ca942-goog




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