Re: (mostly) Arch-independent livepatch

Jessica Yu
2016-03-29T21:13:37Z

+++ Jessica Yu [22/03/16 20:03 -0400]:
>
>Patches based on linux-next.
>
>Previous patchset (v5) found here:
>http://lkml.kernel.org/g/1458157628-8264-1-git-send-email-jeyu@redhat.com
>
>v6:
> - Since we hard-code the field widths for the objname and symbol name
> for the sscanf() calls, which are supposed to correspond to the values
> of MODULE_NAME_LEN and KSYM_NAME_LEN, use BUILD_BUG_ON() to detect when
> the values of these constants deviate from the expected values.
> - Squash the sample livepatch module patch into patch 4
> ("livepatch: reuse module loader code to write relocations") so
> git bisects don't break
> - Don't need the klp_buf struct, just use plain char arrays to hold the
> output of sscanf(). Also, no need to clear the bufs after every
> invocation, as sscanf() takes care to put a null byte at the end of
> the bufs.
> - Fix compiler kbuild errors for the !CONFIG_LIVEPATCH case
> - Fixed some small module.c nits
>

Pinging Rusty, just in case this thread got buried :-)
How do the module.c changes look?

Thanks,
Jessica