[PATCH 0/5] kmap cleanups for uretprobes (Was: extract fill_page()and trampoline implementation)

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 03/24, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> On 03/22, Anton Arapov wrote:
> >
> > +static void fill_page(struct page *page, unsigned long offset, uprobe_opcode_t *insn)
>                                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Well, it should be "u8 *insn" or "char *".

Or void*.

And we have another reason for this helper.

And I really think that we need to cleanup the kmap mess in uprobe.c
before we add the new abuser.

How about this simple series?

> sizeof(insn) == UPROBE_SWBP_INSN_SIZE != MAX_UINSN_BYTES. See also the
> comments above.

I think that copy_to_page() added by 4/5 is what you need, and it solves
the problems with typeof/sizeof. Plus it have another caller.

Oleg.

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