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Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2017 13:38:19 -0500
From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
To: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
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        Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>, Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>,
        Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>, Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] livepatch: add shadow variable sample program
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On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 02:25:26PM -0400, Joe Lawrence wrote:
>  #include <linux/seq_file.h>
> +#include <linux/slab.h>
>  static int livepatch_cmdline_proc_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
>  {
> +	struct task_ctr *nd;
> +
> +	nd = klp_shadow_get(current, "task_ctr");
> +	if (!nd) {
> +		nd = kzalloc(sizeof(*nd), GFP_KERNEL);
> +		if (nd) {
> +			list_add(&nd->list, &shadow_list);
> +			klp_shadow_attach(current, "task_ctr", GFP_KERNEL, nd);
> +		}
> +	}
> +
>  	seq_printf(m, "%s\n", "this has been live patched");
> +
> +	if (nd) {
> +		nd->count++;
> +		seq_printf(m, "current=%p count=%d\n", current, nd->count);
> +	}
> +
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> @@ -99,6 +130,12 @@ static int livepatch_init(void)
>  
>  static void livepatch_exit(void)
>  {
> +	struct task_ctr *nd, *tmp;
> +
> +	list_for_each_entry_safe(nd, tmp, &shadow_list, list) {
> +		list_del(&nd->list);
> +		kfree(nd);
> +	}
>  	WARN_ON(klp_unregister_patch(&patch));
>  }

What does 'nd' stand for?  I think a name like 'ctr' would be clearer.

-- 
Josh