Re: [PATCH 2/2] livepatch: introduce patch/func-walking helpers

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Wed May 20 2015 - 03:12:00 EST


On 05/20/2015, 03:51 AM, Minfei Huang wrote:
> Sure. Sorry for confuse you with my comment.

Oh, I see now, but:

> list_for_each_entry(patch, &klp_patches, list) {
> for (obj = patch->objs; obj->funcs; obj++) {
> ----------------------------------
> We get the fisrt object from the patch, then we break the loop. The code is more clearly to
> use "if", instead of the loop.
> ----------------------------------
> if (!klp_is_module(obj) || strcmp(obj->name, mod->name))
> continue;

See 'continue' here. This *is* a loop and we do not fetch the first
object. We look for the one with the same name.

> if (action == MODULE_STATE_COMING) {
> obj->mod = mod;
> klp_module_notify_coming(patch, obj);
> } else /* MODULE_STATE_GOING */
> klp_module_notify_going(patch, obj);
>
> break;
> ----------------------------------
> Here we break the loop.

Only if we found the one.

> ----------------------------------
> }
> }

thanks,
--
js
suse labs
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