linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v14 03/11] livepatch: Consolidate klp

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Date:   Fri, 14 Dec 2018 10:37:34 +0100 (CET)
From:   Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>
To:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
cc:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>, Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
        Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>,
        Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>,
        Evgenii Shatokhin <eshatokhin@...tuozzo.com>,
        live-patching@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 03/11] livepatch: Consolidate klp_free functions

On Thu, 13 Dec 2018, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 03:59:57PM +0100, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Nov 2018, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > 
> > > -static int klp_init_patch(struct klp_patch *patch)
> > > +/* Init operations that must succeed before klp_free_patch() can be called. */
> > > +static int klp_init_patch_before_free(struct klp_patch *patch)
> > 
> > There is no klp_free_patch() now, so the comment is not correct. Also I 
> > don't know if the function name is ideal, but I don't have a better one.
> 
> Yeah, I found the name of this function to be confusing.  It sounds like
> you're initializing the patch before freeing it, which seems like an
> obvious thing to do :-)
> 
> How about klp_init_patch_early()?

That would work for me.

Miroslav