On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 11:56:48AM -0400, Joe Lawrence wrote:
> When an incoming module is considered for livepatching by
> klp_module_coming(), it iterates over multiple patches and multiple
> kernel objects in this order:
>
> list_for_each_entry(patch, &klp_patches, list) {
> klp_for_each_object(patch, obj) {
>
> which means that if one of the kernel objects fails to patch,
> klp_module_coming()'s error path needs to unpatch and cleanup any kernel
> objects that were already patched by a previous patch.
>
> Reported-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@xxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2:
>
> - cleanup comment describing the new function
> - s/klp_cleanup_module_objects_limited/klp_cleanup_module_patches_limited
> - added a suggested-by tag for Petr since he suggested both code and
> commentary :)
Any more comments on this patch? This is holding up the callbacks patch
so it would be great if we could get this merged soon.
--
Josh
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