Re: [PATCHv5 2/3] kernel: add support for live patching

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Fri Dec 05 2014 - 12:55:17 EST


On 12/04/2014, 04:53 PM, Seth Jennings wrote:
...
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,902 @@
...
> +static struct kobj_type klp_ktype_patch = {
> + .sysfs_ops = &kobj_sysfs_ops,
> + .default_attrs = klp_patch_attrs
> +};

Hi, I seem to have only a single comment here. If I am looking
correctly, the last put on this kobject will cause kobject_cleanup to
generate a warning:
"kobject: '%s' (%p): does not have a release() "
"function, it is broken and must be fixed.\n",

There should be some .release. IMO, this is a place where we will
release the module with the patch. So the .release hook should contain
something like a commented out module_put() with a pointer to
klp_register_patch. (Or be empty at worst.)

thanks,
--
js
suse labs
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