Re: [PATCH v6 0/5] (mostly) Arch-independent livepatch

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Wed Mar 23 2016 - 09:00:16 EST


On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 08:03:14PM -0400, Jessica Yu wrote:
> Patches based on linux-next.
>
> Previous patchset (v5) found here:
> http://lkml.kernel.org/g/1458157628-8264-1-git-send-email-jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> v6:
> - Since we hard-code the field widths for the objname and symbol name
> for the sscanf() calls, which are supposed to correspond to the values
> of MODULE_NAME_LEN and KSYM_NAME_LEN, use BUILD_BUG_ON() to detect when
> the values of these constants deviate from the expected values.
> - Squash the sample livepatch module patch into patch 4
> ("livepatch: reuse module loader code to write relocations") so
> git bisects don't break
> - Don't need the klp_buf struct, just use plain char arrays to hold the
> output of sscanf(). Also, no need to clear the bufs after every
> invocation, as sscanf() takes care to put a null byte at the end of
> the bufs.
> - Fix compiler kbuild errors for the !CONFIG_LIVEPATCH case
> - Fixed some small module.c nits

For the series:

Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks Jessica!

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Josh