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Message-ID: <20180406220530.snglx7m3quye34wp@treble>
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 17:05:30 -0500
From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>, Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>,
Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>,
Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>,
Evgenii Shatokhin <eshatokhin@...tuozzo.com>,
live-patching@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] livepatch: Add atomic replace
On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 01:00:23PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:
> @@ -687,7 +858,14 @@ static void klp_free_patch(struct klp_patch *patch)
>
> static int klp_init_func(struct klp_object *obj, struct klp_func *func)
> {
> - if (!func->old_name || !func->new_func)
> + if (!func->old_name)
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> + /*
> + * NOPs get the address later. The the patched module must be loaded,
"The the" -> "the"
> + * see klp_init_object_loaded().
> + */
> + if (!func->new_func && !func->nop)
> return -EINVAL;
>
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&func->stack_node);
> @@ -742,6 +920,9 @@ static int klp_init_object_loaded(struct klp_patch *patch,
> return -ENOENT;
> }
>
> + if (func->nop)
> + func->new_func = (void *)func->old_addr;
> +
These changes make it more obvious that 'new_func' isn't quite the right
name. It should really be 'new_addr' IMO.
--
Josh
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