From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.ibm.com>,
Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>,
Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>, Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>,
Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>,
Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, live-patching@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/13] livepatch: move klp_find_object_module to module.c
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:45:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210121214529.il2ac3vk6oqogjpr@treble> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210121074959.313333-5-hch@lst.de>
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 08:49:50AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> @@ -820,14 +796,25 @@ static int klp_init_object(struct klp_patch *patch, struct klp_object *obj)
> const char *name;
>
> obj->patched = false;
> - obj->mod = NULL;
Why was this line removed?
> if (klp_is_module(obj)) {
> if (strlen(obj->name) >= MODULE_NAME_LEN)
> return -EINVAL;
> name = obj->name;
>
> - klp_find_object_module(obj);
> + /*
> + * We do not want to block removal of patched modules and
> + * therefore we do not take a reference here. The patches are
> + * removed by klp_module_going() instead.
> + *
> + * Do not mess work of klp_module_coming() and
> + * klp_module_going(). Note that the patch might still be
> + * needed before klp_module_going() is called. Module functions
> + * can be called even in the GOING state until mod->exit()
> + * finishes. This is especially important for patches that
> + * modify semantic of the functions.
> + */
> + obj->mod = find_klp_module(obj->name);
These comments don't make sense in this context, they should be kept
with the code in find_klp_module().
--
Josh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-21 21:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-21 7:49 module loader dead code removal and cleanusp Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-21 7:49 ` [PATCH 01/13] powerpc/powernv: remove get_cxl_module Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-21 9:09 ` Andrew Donnellan
2021-01-21 7:49 ` [PATCH 02/13] module: add a module_loaded helper Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-21 10:00 ` Christophe Leroy
2021-01-21 17:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-21 17:44 ` David Laight
2021-01-21 7:49 ` [PATCH 03/13] livepatch: refactor klp_init_object Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-27 12:58 ` Petr Mladek
2021-01-28 16:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-28 16:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-21 7:49 ` [PATCH 04/13] livepatch: move klp_find_object_module to module.c Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-21 21:45 ` Josh Poimboeuf [this message]
2021-01-26 14:25 ` Jessica Yu
2021-01-27 11:55 ` Petr Mladek
2021-01-21 7:49 ` [PATCH 05/13] kallsyms: refactor {,module_}kallsyms_on_each_symbol Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-21 7:49 ` [PATCH 06/13] kallsyms: only build {,module_}kallsyms_on_each_symbol when required Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-21 7:49 ` [PATCH 07/13] module: mark module_mutex static Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-21 7:49 ` [PATCH 08/13] drm: remove drm_fb_helper_modinit Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-21 8:25 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-01-21 8:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-21 8:39 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-01-21 7:49 ` [PATCH 09/13] module: remove each_symbol_in_section Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-21 7:49 ` [PATCH 10/13] module: merge each_symbol_section into find_symbol Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-21 7:49 ` [PATCH 11/13] module: pass struct find_symbol_args to find_symbol Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-21 7:49 ` [PATCH 12/13] module: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-21 7:49 ` [PATCH 13/13] module: remove EXPORY_UNUSED_SYMBOL* Christoph Hellwig
2021-01-27 13:49 ` Jessica Yu
2021-01-28 16:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
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