linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] (mostly) Arch-independent livepatch

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Date:	Wed, 23 Mar 2016 14:50:09 +0100 (CET)
From:	Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>
To:	Jessica Yu <jeyu@...hat.com>
cc:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>, Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
	live-patching@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] (mostly) Arch-independent livepatch

On Tue, 22 Mar 2016, Jessica Yu wrote:

> v6:
>  - Since we hard-code the field widths for the objname and symbol name
>    for the sscanf() calls, which are supposed to correspond to the values
>    of MODULE_NAME_LEN and KSYM_NAME_LEN, use BUILD_BUG_ON() to detect when
>    the values of these constants deviate from the expected values.
>  - Squash the sample livepatch module patch into patch 4
>    ("livepatch: reuse module loader code to write relocations") so 
>    git bisects don't break
>  - Don't need the klp_buf struct, just use plain char arrays to hold the
>    output of sscanf(). Also, no need to clear the bufs after every
>    invocation, as sscanf() takes care to put a null byte at the end of
>    the bufs.
>  - Fix compiler kbuild errors for the !CONFIG_LIVEPATCH case
>  - Fixed some small module.c nits

FWIW I am fine with all the changes and my Reviewed-by tag is still valid.

Great job, Jessica.

Miroslav