linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv5 2/3] kernel: add support for live patching

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Date:	Fri, 05 Dec 2014 18:55:04 +0100
From:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...hat.com>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@...e.cz>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.cz>, Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>
CC:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	live-patching@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org, kpatch@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 2/3] kernel: add support for live patching

On 12/04/2014, 04:53 PM, Seth Jennings wrote:
...
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,902 @@
...
> +static struct kobj_type klp_ktype_patch = {
> +	.sysfs_ops = &kobj_sysfs_ops,
> +	.default_attrs = klp_patch_attrs
> +};

Hi, I seem to have only a single comment here. If I am looking
correctly, the last put on this kobject will cause kobject_cleanup to
generate a warning:
   "kobject: '%s' (%p): does not have a release() "
   "function, it is broken and must be fixed.\n",

There should be some .release. IMO, this is a place where we will
release the module with the patch. So the .release hook should contain
something like a commented out module_put() with a pointer to
klp_register_patch. (Or be empty at worst.)

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs
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