linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -tip v2] x86/kprobes: Remove unneeded casting from immediate value

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Date:   Tue, 14 Feb 2023 23:44:26 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@...il.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip v2] x86/kprobes: Remove unneeded casting from
 immediate value

On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 09:10:24 +0900
"Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@...nel.org> wrote:

> From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@...nel.org>
> 
> Remove unneeded casting from immediate value assignments for relative
> jump offset. Since the immediate values in the 'insn' data structure are
> assigned from immediate bytes as a signed value to insn.immediate.value
> by insn_field_set(). Thus, if we need to access that value as a signed
> value (in this kprobe's case), we don't need to cast it.
> This is a kind of clean up (should not change behavior) follows Nadav's
> bugfix.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230208071708.4048-1-namit@vmware.com/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@...nel.org>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
>   - Remove meaningless immediate size branches too.
>

Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@...dmis.org>

-- Steve