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Date:   Fri, 6 Apr 2018 17:05:30 -0500
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc:     Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>, Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>,
        Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>,
        Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>,
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        Evgenii Shatokhin <eshatokhin@virtuozzo.com>,
        live-patching@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] livepatch: Add atomic replace
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On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 01:00:23PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:
> @@ -687,7 +858,14 @@ static void klp_free_patch(struct klp_patch *patch)
>  
>  static int klp_init_func(struct klp_object *obj, struct klp_func *func)
>  {
> -	if (!func->old_name || !func->new_func)
> +	if (!func->old_name)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * NOPs get the address later. The the patched module must be loaded,

"The the" -> "the"

> +	 * see klp_init_object_loaded().
> +	 */
> +	if (!func->new_func && !func->nop)
>  		return -EINVAL;

>  
>  	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&func->stack_node);
> @@ -742,6 +920,9 @@ static int klp_init_object_loaded(struct klp_patch *patch,
>  			return -ENOENT;
>  		}
>  
> +		if (func->nop)
> +			func->new_func = (void *)func->old_addr;
> +

These changes make it more obvious that 'new_func' isn't quite the right
name.  It should really be 'new_addr' IMO.

-- 
Josh