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Will Deacon pointed out, that the currently used opcode for filling holes,
that is 0xe7ffffff, seems not robust enough ...
$ echo 0xffffffe7 | xxd -r > test.bin
$ arm-linux-gnueabihf-objdump -m arm -D -b binary test.bin
...
0: e7ffffff udf #65535 ; 0xffff
... while for Thumb, it ends up as ...
0: ffff e7ff vqshl.u64 q15, <illegal reg q15.5>, #63
... which is a bit fragile. The ARM specification defines some *permanently*
guaranteed undefined instruction (UDF) space, for example for ARM in ARMv7-AR,
section A5.4 and for Thumb in ARMv7-M, section A5.2.6.
Similarly, ptrace, kprobes, kgdb, bug and uprobes make use of such instruction
as well to trap. Given mentioned section from the specification, we can find
such a universe as (where 'x' denotes 'don't care'):
ARM: xxxx 0111 1111 xxxx xxxx xxxx 1111 xxxx
Thumb: 1101 1110 xxxx xxxx
We therefore should use a more robust opcode that fits both. Russell King
suggested that we can even reuse a single 32-bit word, that is, 0xe7fddef1
which will fault if executed in ARM *or* Thumb mode as done in
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