From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
To: Harry Hsu <x90613@gmail.com>
Cc: jpoimboe@kernel.org, jikos@kernel.org, mbenes@suse.cz,
joe.lawrence@redhat.com, shuah@kernel.org, song@kernel.org,
live-patching@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selftests/livepatch: Test rejection of aliased symbols in one object
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 09:09:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ap-0odfpLVv8k2er@pathway> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260905155507.273262-1-x90613@gmail.com>
On Sat 2026-09-05 23:55:07, Harry Hsu wrote:
> klp_init_object_loaded() now rejects an object whose klp_funcs resolve to
> the same address, because aliased symbols would push two klp_funcs of one
> livepatch onto a single ops->func_stack and leave the redirection
> ambiguous.
>
> Add a target module providing test_klp_alias_show() together with its
> __alias() sibling, and a livepatch naming both of them. Two test cases
> cover both callers of klp_init_object_loaded(): the klp_enable_patch()
> path, where the target module is loaded before the livepatch, and the
> klp_module_coming() path, where the livepatch is loaded first and the
> module loader has to refuse the target module.
>
> Suggested-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Harry Hsu <x90613@gmail.com>
Looks good to me and seems to work:
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Tested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
> This is the selftest I promised in the v2 thread [1].
>
> It applies on top of patch 1/3 of the series [2] and does not touch the
> rest of it. Petr, since you are going to post v4 of the whole patchset
> anyway, please feel free to fold this in as the last patch. Otherwise I
> am happy to resend it as a separate follow-up once the series lands --
> whichever is less work for you.
Yup, I am working on v4 and included this patch.
Best Regards,
Petr
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-08 7:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-30 17:33 [PATCH v3 0/3] livepatch: Fail object initialization on duplicate patched function Harry Hsu
2026-08-30 17:33 ` [PATCH 1/3] " Harry Hsu
2026-09-08 7:06 ` Petr Mladek
2026-08-30 17:33 ` [PATCH 2/3] livepatch: Move code for updating livepatch object relocations Harry Hsu
2026-08-30 17:33 ` [PATCH 3/3] livepatch: Clean up klp_init_object_loaded() when fails Harry Hsu
2026-08-30 17:56 ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-31 12:57 ` Petr Mladek
2026-09-05 15:55 ` [PATCH] selftests/livepatch: Test rejection of aliased symbols in one object Harry Hsu
2026-09-08 7:09 ` Petr Mladek [this message]
2026-09-08 20:39 ` Song Liu
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