Re: [PATCHv3 2/3] kernel: add support for live patching

[Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 03:44:35PM +0100, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Nov 2014, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > [ ... snip ... ]
> > > +static int klp_init_patch(struct klp_patch *patch)
> > > +{
> > > +	int ret;
> > > +
> > > +	mutex_lock(&klp_mutex);
> > > +
> > > +	/* init */
> > > +	patch->state = LPC_DISABLED;
> > > +
> > > +	/* sysfs */
> > > +	ret = kobject_init_and_add(&patch->kobj, &klp_ktype_patch,
> > > +				   klp_root_kobj, patch->mod->name);
> > > +	if (ret)
> > > +		return ret;
> > 
> > klp_mutex is leaked locked here.
> > 
> > > +
> > > +	/* create objects */
> > > +	ret = klp_init_objects(patch);
> > > +	if (ret) {
> > > +		kobject_put(&patch->kobj);
> > > +		return ret;
> > 
> > And here as well.
> > 
> > All in all, this is looking very good to me. I think we are really close 
> > to having a code that all the parties would agree with. Thanks everybody,
> 
> The leaking is my fault. I missed that somehow during rebasing.
> 
> Seth, could you please fix it in v4? 

Is it necessary to grab the mutex at the beginning of klp_init_patch?  I
think we only need it when adding it to the global list at the end of
the function.

-- 
Josh