Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] livepatch: Proper error handling in the shadow variables selftest

From: Miroslav Benes
Date: Tue Feb 05 2019 - 09:19:03 EST


On Mon, 4 Feb 2019, Petr Mladek wrote:

> Add proper error handling when allocating or getting shadow variables
> in the selftest. It prevents an invalid pointer access in some situations.
> It shows the good programming practice in the others.
>
> The error codes are just the best guess and specific for this particular
> test. In general, klp_shadow_alloc() returns NULL also when the given
> shadow variable has already been allocated. In addition, both
> klp_shadow_alloc() and klp_shadow_get_or_alloc() might fail from
> other reasons when the constructor fails.
>
> Note, that the error code is not really important even in the real life.
> The use of shadow variables should be transparent for the original
> livepatched code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@xxxxxxx>

Miroslav