Re: [PATCH 2/3 v9] livepatch: add sympos as disambiguator field to klp_reloc

From: Miroslav Benes
Date: Mon Dec 14 2015 - 07:45:15 EST


On Tue, 1 Dec 2015, Chris J Arges wrote:

> In cases of duplicate symbols, sympos will be used to disambiguate instead
> of val. By default sympos will be 0, and patching will only succeed if
> the symbol is unique. Specifying a positive value will ensure that
> occurrence of the symbol in kallsyms for the patched object will be used
> for patching if it is valid. For external relocations sympos is not
> supported.
>
> Remove klp_verify_callback, klp_verify_args and klp_verify_vmlinux_symbol
> as they are no longer used.
>
> >From the klp_reloc structure remove val, as it can be refactored as a
> local variable in klp_write_object_relocations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

FWIW

Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@xxxxxxx>

Miroslav
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