Re: [RFC 2/5] livepatch: Basic API to track system state changes

[Nicolai Stange]

Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> ---
>  include/linux/livepatch.h | 15 +++++++++
>  kernel/livepatch/Makefile |  2 +-
>  kernel/livepatch/state.c  | 83 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 99 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 kernel/livepatch/state.c
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/livepatch.h b/include/linux/livepatch.h
> index eeba421cc671..591abdee30d7 100644
> --- a/include/linux/livepatch.h
> +++ b/include/linux/livepatch.h
> @@ -132,10 +132,21 @@ struct klp_object {
>  	bool patched;
>  };
>  
> +/**
> + * struct klp_state - state of the system modified by the livepatch
> + * @id:		system state identifier (non zero)
> + * @data:	custom data
> + */
> +struct klp_state {
> +	int id;

Can we make this an unsigned long please? It would be consistent with
shadow variable ids and would give more room for encoding bugzilla or
CVE numbers or so.

Nicolai

> +	void *data;
> +};
> +