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

From: Minfei Huang
Date: Tue May 19 2015 - 21:52:22 EST


On 05/19/15 at 11:58P, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Tue, 19 May 2015, Minfei Huang wrote:
>
> > > klp_for_each_object and klp_for_each_func are now used all over the
> > > code. One need not think what is the proper condition to check in the
> > > for loop now.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > include/linux/livepatch.h | 6 ++++++
> > > kernel/livepatch/core.c | 18 +++++++++---------
> > > 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/include/linux/livepatch.h b/include/linux/livepatch.h
> > > index fe45f2f02c8d..31db7a05dd36 100644
> > > --- a/include/linux/livepatch.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/livepatch.h
> > > @@ -805,7 +805,7 @@ static int klp_init_patch(struct klp_patch *patch)
> > > if (ret)
> > > goto unlock;
> > >
> > > - for (obj = patch->objs; obj->funcs; obj++) {
> > > + klp_for_each_object(patch, obj) {
> > > ret = klp_init_object(patch, obj);
> > > if (ret)
> > > goto free;
> > > @@ -960,7 +960,7 @@ static int klp_module_notify(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long action,
> > > mod->klp_alive = false;
> > >
> > > list_for_each_entry(patch, &klp_patches, list) {
> > > - for (obj = patch->objs; obj->funcs; obj++) {
> > > + klp_for_each_object(patch, obj) {
> >
> > The code is more clearly to use "if", instead of the loop, although we will take
> > more than one line than previous, since we will always get the first function
> > from the object.
>
> I have absolutely no idea what you are trying to say here, sorry. Could
> you please try to rephrase your review comment?
>

Sure. Sorry for confuse you with my comment.

Following is the livepatch code.

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;

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.
----------------------------------
}
}

Thanks
Minfei
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