From: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
To: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
live-patching@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, kpatch@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/3] kernel: add support for live patching
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 08:26:27 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141118142627.GA1944@cerebellum.variantweb.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1411181511110.1117@pobox.suse.cz>
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 03:11:43PM +0100, Miroslav Benes wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> thank you for the revision. I'll rebase our patches on top of that. Anyway
> there is a small bug in a header file. See below.
>
> On Sun, 16 Nov 2014, Seth Jennings wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/livepatch.h
> b/arch/x86/include/asm/livepatch.h
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..c5fab45
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/livepatch.h
> > @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
> > +/*
> > + * livepatch.h - x86-specific Live Kernel Patching Core
> > + *
> > + * Copyright (C) 2014 Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
> > + *
> > + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> > + * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
> > + * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
> > + * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
> > + *
> > + * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> > + * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> > + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
> > + * GNU General Public License for more details.
> > + *
> > + * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> > + * along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
> > + */
> > +
> > +#ifndef _ASM_X86_LIVEPATCH_H
> > +#define _ASM_X86_LIVEPATCH_H
> > +
> > +#include <linux/module.h>
> > +
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_LIVE_PATCHING
> > +extern int lpc_write_module_reloc(struct module *mod, unsigned long
> type,
> > + unsigned long loc, unsigned long value);
> > +
> > +#else
> > +static int lpc_write_module_reloc(struct module *mod, unsigned long
> type,
> > + unsigned long loc, unsigned long value);
> > +{
> > + pr_err("Kernel does not support live patching\n");
> > + return -ENOSYS;
> > +}
> > +#endif
> > +
> > +#endif /* _ASM_X86_LIVEPATCH_H */
>
> There should not be a semicolon at the end of the function header in #else
> branch.
Good catch.
Also, I'm adding "build with LIVE_PATCHING=n" as a test step :-/
Thanks,
Seth
>
> Regards,
>
> ---
> Miroslav Benes
> SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-18 14:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-17 1:29 [PATCHv2 0/3] Kernel Live Patching Seth Jennings
2014-11-17 1:29 ` [PATCHv2 1/3] kernel: add TAINT_LIVEPATCH Seth Jennings
2014-11-17 1:29 ` [PATCHv2 2/3] kernel: add support for live patching Seth Jennings
2014-11-17 18:45 ` Greg KH
2014-11-17 19:13 ` Seth Jennings
2014-11-18 14:11 ` Miroslav Benes
2014-11-18 14:26 ` Seth Jennings [this message]
2014-11-18 14:45 ` Miroslav Benes
2014-11-19 20:34 ` Seth Jennings
2014-11-20 13:22 ` Miroslav Benes
2014-11-19 15:27 ` Miroslav Benes
2014-11-19 16:05 ` Seth Jennings
2014-11-20 13:10 ` Miroslav Benes
2014-11-20 17:35 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2014-11-20 19:56 ` Seth Jennings
2014-11-21 14:41 ` Miroslav Benes
2014-11-21 14:38 ` Miroslav Benes
2014-11-20 15:19 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2014-11-20 16:48 ` Seth Jennings
2014-11-17 1:29 ` [PATCHv2 3/3] kernel: add sysfs documentation " Seth Jennings
2014-11-17 18:50 ` Greg KH
2014-11-17 5:33 ` [PATCHv2 0/3] Kernel Live Patching Masami Hiramatsu
2014-11-17 13:16 ` Steven Rostedt
2014-11-17 14:54 ` Seth Jennings
2014-11-18 14:23 ` Jiri Slaby
2014-11-18 14:42 ` Seth Jennings
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