Re: [PATCH v3] livepatch/module: Correctly handle coming and going modules

[Petr Mladek]

On Tue 2015-03-10 09:22:04, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 01:01:07PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > On Mon 2015-03-09 09:40:55, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 02:25:28PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > > > diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
> > > > index d856e96a3cce..b3ffc231ce0d 100644
> > > > --- a/kernel/module.c
> > > > +++ b/kernel/module.c
> > > > @@ -3271,6 +3271,10 @@ static int load_module(struct load_info *info, const char __user *uargs,
> > > >  	}
> > > >  #endif
> > > >  
> > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_LIVEPATCH
> > > > +	mod->klp_alive = false;
> > > > +#endif
> > > > +
> > > 
> > > I don't think you need this initialization.  It looks like the module
> > > struct is embedded in the mod->module_core region which is initialized
> > > to zero in move_module().
> > 
> > I have looked at this before but I was not able to find a code
> > zeroing struct module. If I get it correctly, mod->module_core
> > is a location where symbol table sections are copied or so.
> 
> Yeah, it's far from obvious.  AFAICT, it's cleared by the
> "memset(ptr, 0, mod->core_size)" line.

What I wanted to say is that module_core is not struct module. It
seems that it points to the module code. See within_module_core() and
how it is used().

By other words, I think that struct module is not zeroed and we need
to initialize the bool.

Or did I miss anything?

Best Regards,
Petr
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