On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 09:20:31AM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:
> We are going to add a feature called atomic replace. It will allow to
> create a patch that would replace all already registered patches.
> For this, we will need to dynamically create funcs and objects
> for functions that are no longer patched.
>
> We will want to reuse the existing init() and free() functions. Up to now,
> the free() functions checked a limit and were called only for structures
> with initialized kobject. But we will want to call them also for structures
> that were allocated but where the kobject was not initialized yet.
>
> This patch removes the limit. It calls klp_free*() functions for all
> structures. But only the ones with initialized kobject are freed.
> The handling of un-initialized structures will be added later with
> the support for dynamic structures.
>
> This patch does not change the existing behavior.
>
> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/livepatch/core.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/livepatch/core.c b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
> index 1d525f4a270a..69bde95e76f8 100644
> --- a/kernel/livepatch/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
> @@ -653,17 +653,15 @@ static struct kobj_type klp_ktype_func = {
> .sysfs_ops = &kobj_sysfs_ops,
> };
>
> -/*
> - * Free all functions' kobjects in the array up to some limit. When limit is
> - * NULL, all kobjects are freed.
> - */
> -static void klp_free_funcs_limited(struct klp_object *obj,
> - struct klp_func *limit)
> +/* Free all funcs that have the kobject initialized. */
> +static void klp_free_funcs(struct klp_object *obj)
> {
> struct klp_func *func;
>
> - for (func = obj->funcs; func->old_name && func != limit; func++)
> - kobject_put(&func->kobj);
> + klp_for_each_func(obj, func) {
> + if (func->kobj.state_initialized)
> + kobject_put(&func->kobj);
> + }
> }
Now that this function only has a single caller, personally I think it
would become more readable if klp_free_funcs() were inlined into its
caller (klp_free_objects()). At the very least it should be moved to be
right above it.
>
> /* Clean up when a patched object is unloaded */
> @@ -677,24 +675,23 @@ static void klp_free_object_loaded(struct klp_object *obj)
> func->old_addr = 0;
> }
>
> -/*
> - * Free all objects' kobjects in the array up to some limit. When limit is
> - * NULL, all kobjects are freed.
> - */
> -static void klp_free_objects_limited(struct klp_patch *patch,
> - struct klp_object *limit)
> +/* Free all funcs and objects that have the kobject initialized. */
> +static void klp_free_objects(struct klp_patch *patch)
> {
> struct klp_object *obj;
>
> - for (obj = patch->objs; obj->funcs && obj != limit; obj++) {
> - klp_free_funcs_limited(obj, NULL);
> - kobject_put(&obj->kobj);
> + klp_for_each_object(patch, obj) {
> + klp_free_funcs(obj);
> +
> + if (obj->kobj.state_initialized)
> + kobject_put(&obj->kobj);
> }
> }
>
> static void klp_free_patch(struct klp_patch *patch)
> {
> - klp_free_objects_limited(patch, NULL);
> + klp_free_objects(patch);
> +
> if (!list_empty(&patch->list))
> list_del(&patch->list);
> }
> @@ -791,21 +788,16 @@ static int klp_init_object(struct klp_patch *patch, struct klp_object *obj)
> klp_for_each_func(obj, func) {
> ret = klp_init_func(obj, func);
> if (ret)
> - goto free;
> + return ret;
> }
>
> if (klp_is_object_loaded(obj)) {
> ret = klp_init_object_loaded(patch, obj);
> if (ret)
> - goto free;
> + return ret;
> }
>
> return 0;
> -
> -free:
> - klp_free_funcs_limited(obj, func);
> - kobject_put(&obj->kobj);
> - return ret;
> }
>
> static int klp_init_patch(struct klp_patch *patch)
> @@ -842,7 +834,7 @@ static int klp_init_patch(struct klp_patch *patch)
> return 0;
>
> free:
> - klp_free_objects_limited(patch, obj);
> + klp_free_objects(patch);
>
> mutex_unlock(&klp_mutex);
>
> --
> 2.13.6
>
--
Josh
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