From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This was done by commit 52fa82c21f64e900a72437269a5cc9e0034b424e upstream, but this backport avoids changing all callers of the old decoder API. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/include/asm/insn.h | 2 ++ arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 2 +- tools/arch/x86/include/asm/insn.h | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/insn.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/insn.h @@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ enum insn_mode { extern int insn_decode(struct insn *insn, const void *kaddr, int buf_len, enum insn_mode m); +#define insn_decode_kernel(_insn, _ptr) insn_decode((_insn), (_ptr), MAX_INSN_SIZE, INSN_MODE_KERN) + /* Attribute will be determined after getting ModRM (for opcode groups) */ static inline void insn_get_attribute(struct insn *insn) { --- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c @@ -1290,7 +1290,7 @@ static void text_poke_loc_init(struct te if (!emulate) emulate = opcode; - ret = insn_decode(&insn, emulate, MAX_INSN_SIZE, INSN_MODE_KERN); + ret = insn_decode_kernel(&insn, emulate); BUG_ON(ret < 0); BUG_ON(len != insn.length); --- a/tools/arch/x86/include/asm/insn.h +++ b/tools/arch/x86/include/asm/insn.h @@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ enum insn_mode { extern int insn_decode(struct insn *insn, const void *kaddr, int buf_len, enum insn_mode m); +#define insn_decode_kernel(_insn, _ptr) insn_decode((_insn), (_ptr), MAX_INSN_SIZE, INSN_MODE_KERN) + /* Attribute will be determined after getting ModRM (for opcode groups) */ static inline void insn_get_attribute(struct insn *insn) {