xref: /linux/lib/extable.c (revision 0d456bad36d42d16022be045c8a53ddbb59ee478)
1 /*
2  * Derived from arch/ppc/mm/extable.c and arch/i386/mm/extable.c.
3  *
4  * Copyright (C) 2004 Paul Mackerras, IBM Corp.
5  *
6  * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
7  * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
8  * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
9  * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
10  */
11 
12 #include <linux/module.h>
13 #include <linux/init.h>
14 #include <linux/sort.h>
15 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
16 
17 #ifndef ARCH_HAS_SORT_EXTABLE
18 /*
19  * The exception table needs to be sorted so that the binary
20  * search that we use to find entries in it works properly.
21  * This is used both for the kernel exception table and for
22  * the exception tables of modules that get loaded.
23  */
24 static int cmp_ex(const void *a, const void *b)
25 {
26 	const struct exception_table_entry *x = a, *y = b;
27 
28 	/* avoid overflow */
29 	if (x->insn > y->insn)
30 		return 1;
31 	if (x->insn < y->insn)
32 		return -1;
33 	return 0;
34 }
35 
36 void sort_extable(struct exception_table_entry *start,
37 		  struct exception_table_entry *finish)
38 {
39 	sort(start, finish - start, sizeof(struct exception_table_entry),
40 	     cmp_ex, NULL);
41 }
42 
43 #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
44 /*
45  * If the exception table is sorted, any referring to the module init
46  * will be at the beginning or the end.
47  */
48 void trim_init_extable(struct module *m)
49 {
50 	/*trim the beginning*/
51 	while (m->num_exentries && within_module_init(m->extable[0].insn, m)) {
52 		m->extable++;
53 		m->num_exentries--;
54 	}
55 	/*trim the end*/
56 	while (m->num_exentries &&
57 		within_module_init(m->extable[m->num_exentries-1].insn, m))
58 		m->num_exentries--;
59 }
60 #endif /* CONFIG_MODULES */
61 #endif /* !ARCH_HAS_SORT_EXTABLE */
62 
63 #ifndef ARCH_HAS_SEARCH_EXTABLE
64 /*
65  * Search one exception table for an entry corresponding to the
66  * given instruction address, and return the address of the entry,
67  * or NULL if none is found.
68  * We use a binary search, and thus we assume that the table is
69  * already sorted.
70  */
71 const struct exception_table_entry *
72 search_extable(const struct exception_table_entry *first,
73 	       const struct exception_table_entry *last,
74 	       unsigned long value)
75 {
76 	while (first <= last) {
77 		const struct exception_table_entry *mid;
78 
79 		mid = ((last - first) >> 1) + first;
80 		/*
81 		 * careful, the distance between value and insn
82 		 * can be larger than MAX_LONG:
83 		 */
84 		if (mid->insn < value)
85 			first = mid + 1;
86 		else if (mid->insn > value)
87 			last = mid - 1;
88 		else
89 			return mid;
90         }
91         return NULL;
92 }
93 #endif
94