Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 13 Apr 2015 10:37:25 +0200 | From | Petr Mladek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] livepatch: Add a new function to verify the address and name match for extra module |
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On Sun 2015-04-12 21:15:53, Minfei Huang wrote: > In order to restrict the patch, we can verify the provided function > address and name match. Now we have can only verify the vmlinux function > name and address. > > Add a new function to verify extra module function name and address. The > patch would not be patched, if the function name and address are not > matched.
old_addr could be predefined only for vmlinux. It does not make sense to define it for modules because they are loaded dynamically, each time on a different addresses. It means that it does not make sense to verify addresses from modules. They always need to be detected.
Best Regards, Petr
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