Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756039AbbKDQSA (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2015 11:18:00 -0500 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:41330 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753599AbbKDQR6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Nov 2015 11:17:58 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] livepatch: old_name.number scheme in livepatch sysfs directory To: Josh Poimboeuf , Miroslav Benes References: <20151102203241.GF27488@treble.redhat.com> <1446505187-28970-1-git-send-email-chris.j.arges@canonical.com> <20151103145843.GH27488@treble.redhat.com> <20151103165058.GM27488@treble.redhat.com> <20151104160354.GA29899@treble.redhat.com> Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org, jeyu@redhat.com, Seth Jennings , Jiri Kosina , Vojtech Pavlik , linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Chris J Arges X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <563A2FB0.60101@canonical.com> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 10:17:52 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20151104160354.GA29899@treble.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2437 Lines: 60 On 11/04/2015 10:03 AM, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 10:52:52AM +0100, Miroslav Benes wrote: >> On Tue, 3 Nov 2015, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: >>>> Object entry would be empty for not loaded object. I would not >>>> dare to propose to remove such object entries. It would make things worse. >>> >>> Why would removing an empty object entry make things worse? >> >> I think it all comes down to a question whether the sysfs entries say what >> a patch is capable to patch or what this patch is currently patching in >> the system. I am inclined to the former so the removal would make me >> nervous. But I am not against the second approach. We are still in testing >> mode as far as sysfs is concerned so we can try even harsh changes and see >> how it's gonna go. > > I see your point. This approach only describes what is patched now, but > it doesn't describe what *will* be patched. Ideally we could find a way > to describe both. > > Speaking of harsh changes, here's an idea. > > What if we require the patch author to supply the value of 'n' instead > of supplying the symbol address? We could get rid of 'old_addr' as an > input in klp_func and and replace it with 'old_sympos' which has the > value of 'n'. Or alternatively we could require old_name to be of the > format "func,n". I like the idea of old_sympos better than modifying the string. In addition if no old_sympos is specified then it should default to 0, since this will probably be the more common case. > > That would uniquely identify each patched function, even _before_ the > object is loaded. > > It would also fix another big problem we have today, where there's no > way to disambiguate duplicate symbols in modules, for both function > addresses and for relocs. > > It would simplify the code in other places as well: no special handling > for kASLR, no need for klp_verify_vmlinux_symbol() vs > klp_find_object_symbol(). > > A drawback is that it requires the patch author to do a little more due > diligence when filling out klp_func. But we already require them to be > careful. > > Thoughts? > I'll hold off on my v3 for now. Very interesting discussion : ). --chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/