Re: klp: make object/func-walking helpers more robust

From: Jessica Yu
Date: Fri Apr 29 2016 - 12:26:57 EST


+++ Miroslav Benes [28/04/16 16:34 +0200]:
Current object-walking helper checks the presence of obj->funcs to
determine the end of objs array in klp_object structure. This is
somewhat fragile because one can easily forget about funcs definition
during livepatch creation. In such a case the livepatch module is
successfully loaded and all objects after the incorrect one are omitted.
This is very confusing. Let's make the helper more robust and check also
for the other external member, name. Thus the helper correctly stops on
an empty item of the array. We need to have a check for obj->funcs in
klp_init_object() to make it work.

The same applies to a func-walking helper.

As a benefit we'll check for new_func member definition during the
livepatch initialization. There is no such check anywhere in the code
now.

Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx>