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Re: [PATCH 2/3 v9] livepatch: add sympos as disambiguator field to klp_reloc

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  Re: [PATCH 2/3 v9] livepatch: add sympos as disambiguator field to  klp_reloc Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> - 2015-12-14 13:50 +0100

#1291160 — Re: [PATCH 2/3 v9] livepatch: add sympos as disambiguator field to klp_reloc

On Tue, 1 Dec 2015, Chris J Arges wrote:

> In cases of duplicate symbols, sympos will be used to disambiguate instead
> of val. By default sympos will be 0, and patching will only succeed if
> the symbol is unique. Specifying a positive value will ensure that
> occurrence of the symbol in kallsyms for the patched object will be used
> for patching if it is valid. For external relocations sympos is not
> supported.
> 
> Remove klp_verify_callback, klp_verify_args and klp_verify_vmlinux_symbol
> as they are no longer used.
> 
> >From the klp_reloc structure remove val, as it can be refactored as a
> local variable in klp_write_object_relocations.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>

FWIW

Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>

Miroslav
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