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* [PATCH] xsplice: Prevent new symbols duplicating core symbols
@ 2016-05-10  9:10 Ross Lagerwall
  2016-05-10  9:32 ` Wei Liu
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ross Lagerwall @ 2016-05-10  9:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: xen-devel; +Cc: Ross Lagerwall, Wei Liu, Jan Beulich

When loading patches, the code prevents loading a patch containing a new
symbol that duplicates a symbol from another loaded patch. However, the
check should also prevent loading a new symbol that duplicates a symbol
from the core hypervisor.

Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
---

Wei, can you consider this for 4.7? Thanks

 xen/common/xsplice.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/xen/common/xsplice.c b/xen/common/xsplice.c
index c9fc53a..21b9ec0 100644
--- a/xen/common/xsplice.c
+++ b/xen/common/xsplice.c
@@ -748,7 +748,8 @@ static int build_symbol_table(struct payload *payload,
 
         if ( !found )
         {
-            if ( xsplice_symbols_lookup_by_name(symtab[i].name) )
+            if ( symbols_lookup_by_name(symtab[i].name) ||
+                 xsplice_symbols_lookup_by_name(symtab[i].name) )
             {
                 dprintk(XENLOG_ERR, XSPLICE "%s: duplicate new symbol: %s\n",
                         elf->name, symtab[i].name);
-- 
2.4.11


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* Re: [PATCH] xsplice: Prevent new symbols duplicating core symbols
  2016-05-10  9:10 [PATCH] xsplice: Prevent new symbols duplicating core symbols Ross Lagerwall
@ 2016-05-10  9:32 ` Wei Liu
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Wei Liu @ 2016-05-10  9:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ross Lagerwall; +Cc: Wei Liu, Jan Beulich, xen-devel

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 10:10:02AM +0100, Ross Lagerwall wrote:
> When loading patches, the code prevents loading a patch containing a new
> symbol that duplicates a symbol from another loaded patch. However, the
> check should also prevent loading a new symbol that duplicates a symbol
> from the core hypervisor.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
> ---
> 
> Wei, can you consider this for 4.7? Thanks
> 

This looks like a valid and simple bug fix, I'm fine with this going
into 4.7.

Wei.

>  xen/common/xsplice.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/xen/common/xsplice.c b/xen/common/xsplice.c
> index c9fc53a..21b9ec0 100644
> --- a/xen/common/xsplice.c
> +++ b/xen/common/xsplice.c
> @@ -748,7 +748,8 @@ static int build_symbol_table(struct payload *payload,
>  
>          if ( !found )
>          {
> -            if ( xsplice_symbols_lookup_by_name(symtab[i].name) )
> +            if ( symbols_lookup_by_name(symtab[i].name) ||
> +                 xsplice_symbols_lookup_by_name(symtab[i].name) )
>              {
>                  dprintk(XENLOG_ERR, XSPLICE "%s: duplicate new symbol: %s\n",
>                          elf->name, symtab[i].name);
> -- 
> 2.4.11
> 

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