From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>,
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
live-patching@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>,
Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
mingo@kernel.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com,
oleg@redhat.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, andi@firstfloor.org,
rostedt@goodmis.org, tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] livepatch: remove unnecessary call to klp_find_object_module()
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 10:00:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150304090004.GC15177@pathway.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4bf3b9f8329b0a6b47747ffe5549de34b4be591d.1425423640.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com>
On Tue 2015-03-03 17:02:21, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> klp_find_object_module() is called from both the klp register and enable
> paths. Only the call from the register path is necessary because the
> module notifier will let us know if the patched module gets loaded or
> unloaded.
>
> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Yup, the call is redundant.
Best Regards,
Petr
> ---
> kernel/livepatch/core.c | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/livepatch/core.c b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
> index 01ca088..a74e4e8 100644
> --- a/kernel/livepatch/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
> @@ -541,8 +541,6 @@ static int __klp_enable_patch(struct klp_patch *patch)
> pr_notice("enabling patch '%s'\n", patch->mod->name);
>
> for (obj = patch->objs; obj->funcs; obj++) {
> - klp_find_object_module(obj);
> -
> if (!klp_is_object_loaded(obj))
> continue;
>
> --
> 2.1.0
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-04 8:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-03 11:38 [RFC PATCH] livepatch/module: Do not patch modules that are not ready Petr Mladek
2015-03-03 14:55 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-03-03 15:48 ` Petr Mladek
2015-03-03 16:01 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-03-03 17:34 ` Petr Mladek
2015-03-03 19:31 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-03-03 19:35 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-03-03 23:02 ` [PATCH 0/2] livepatch: fix patch module loading race Josh Poimboeuf
2015-03-03 23:02 ` [PATCH 1/2] livepatch: remove unnecessary call to klp_find_object_module() Josh Poimboeuf
2015-03-04 9:00 ` Petr Mladek [this message]
2015-03-04 21:48 ` Jiri Kosina
2015-03-03 23:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] livepatch: fix patched module loading race Josh Poimboeuf
2015-03-04 13:17 ` Petr Mladek
2015-03-04 14:18 ` Petr Mladek
2015-03-04 15:34 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-03-04 15:51 ` Jiri Kosina
2015-03-04 16:41 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-03-04 16:36 ` Petr Mladek
2015-03-04 17:57 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-03-04 22:02 ` Jiri Kosina
2015-03-04 22:45 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-03-05 0:52 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2015-03-05 14:18 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-03-06 1:24 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2015-03-06 10:51 ` Petr Mladek
2015-03-06 11:37 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2015-03-06 13:05 ` Petr Mladek
2015-03-06 14:43 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2015-03-05 14:24 ` Petr Mladek
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