Hi Jessica,
I walked through the series and it looks really nice. Others have already
pointed out the issues I also found, so only few minor things below.
First thing, could you copy&paste the information and reasoning from the
cover letter to the changelogs where appropriate? It is very detailed and
it would be a pity to lost it.
On Fri, 8 Jan 2016, Jessica Yu wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/livepatch.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/livepatch.h
> index 19c099a..7312e25 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/livepatch.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/livepatch.h
> @@ -33,8 +33,6 @@ static inline int klp_check_compiler_support(void)
> #endif
> return 0;
> }
> -int klp_write_module_reloc(struct module *mod, unsigned long type,
> - unsigned long loc, unsigned long value);
You left klp_write_module_reloc() in arch/s390/include/asm/livepatch.h I'm
afraid. Anyway it would be really great if you managed to test the series
on s390 somehow. Just to know that all the roadblocks are really gone.
> -/*
> - * external symbols are located outside the parent object (where the parent
> - * object is either vmlinux or the kmod being patched).
> - */
> -static int klp_find_external_symbol(struct module *pmod, const char *name,
> - unsigned long *addr)
> +static int klp_resolve_symbols(Elf_Shdr *relsec, struct module *pmod)
> {
> - const struct kernel_symbol *sym;
> + int i, len, ret = 0;
> + Elf_Rela *relas;
> + Elf_Sym *sym;
> + char *symname, *sym_objname;
>
> - /* first, check if it's an exported symbol */
> - preempt_disable();
> - sym = find_symbol(name, NULL, NULL, true, true);
> - if (sym) {
> - *addr = sym->value;
> - preempt_enable();
> - return 0;
> + relas = (Elf_Rela *) relsec->sh_addr;
> + /* For each rela in this .klp.rel. section */
> + for (i = 0; i < relsec->sh_size / sizeof(Elf_Rela); i++) {
> + sym = pmod->core_symtab + ELF_R_SYM(relas[i].r_info);
> + symname = pmod->core_strtab + sym->st_name;
Maybe it would be better to use pmod->symtab and pmod->strtab everywhere.
It should be the same, but core_* versions are only helpers used in
load_module and friends. There is even a comment in
include/linux/module.h.
/*
* We keep the symbol and string tables for kallsyms.
* The core_* fields below are temporary, loader-only (they
* could really be discarded after module init).
*/
We should respect that.
Thanks,
Miroslav
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