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Date:   Thu, 18 Oct 2018 13:40:55 +0200
From:   Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.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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        live-patching@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 04/12] livepatch: Consolidate klp_free functions
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On Wed 2018-10-17 13:22:54, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 02:37:05PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > @@ -637,6 +647,7 @@ static int klp_init_patch(struct klp_patch *patch)
> >  	mutex_lock(&klp_mutex);
> >  
> >  	patch->enabled = false;
> > +	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&patch->list);
> 
> Is this a bug fix?  If so, it should go in a separate patch.  I'm
> wondering how this worked before.

It is not a bug fix. It was not needed before because
klp_register_patch() did not checked this field when failed.

But this patch started to use the generic
klp_free_patch_start()/klp_free_patch_finish() in both
klp_unregister_patch() and in klp_init_patch() error patch.
Therefore we need to have a valid value from the beginning.

Best Regards,
Petr