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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/livepatch.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/livepatch.h | 19 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/livepatch.h b/include/linux/livepatch.h index 31db7a05dd36..b60e8abab0ab 100644 --- a/include/linux/livepatch.h +++ b/include/linux/livepatch.h @@ -37,8 +37,9 @@ enum klp_state { * struct klp_func - function structure for live patching * @old_name: name of the function to be patched * @new_func: pointer to the patched function code - * @old_addr: a hint conveying at what address the old function - * can be found (optional, vmlinux patches only) + * @old_sympos: a hint indicating which symbol position the old function + * can be found (optional) + * @old_addr: the address of the function being patched * @kobj: kobject for sysfs resources * @state: tracks function-level patch application state * @stack_node: list node for klp_ops func_stack list @@ -48,16 +49,16 @@ struct klp_func { const char *old_name; void *new_func; /* - * The old_addr field is optional and can be used to resolve - * duplicate symbol names in the vmlinux object. If this - * information is not present, the symbol is located by name - * with kallsyms. If the name is not unique and old_addr is - * not provided, the patch application fails as there is no - * way to resolve the ambiguity. + * The old_sympos field is optional and can be used to resolve + * duplicate symbol names in livepatch objects. If this field is zero, + * it is expected the symbol is unique, otherwise patching fails. If + * this value is greater than zero then that occurrence of the symbol + * in kallsyms for the given object is used. */ - unsigned long old_addr; + unsigned long old_sympos; /* internal */ + unsigned long old_addr; struct kobject kobj; enum klp_state state; struct list_head stack_node; |