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authorPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>2018-04-16 13:36:47 +0200
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2018-04-17 13:42:48 +0200
commit3b2c77d000fe9f7d02e9e726e00dccf9f92b256f (patch)
treee2586a9d55451fecd9e83deadaebefb717fcbbb2 /kernel/livepatch
parente91c2518a5d22a07642f35d85f39001ad379dae4 (diff)
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livepatch: Allow to call a custom callback when freeing shadow variables
We might need to do some actions before the shadow variable is freed. For example, we might need to remove it from a list or free some data that it points to. This is already possible now. The user can get the shadow variable by klp_shadow_get(), do the necessary actions, and then call klp_shadow_free(). This patch allows to do it a more elegant way. The user could implement the needed actions in a callback that is passed to klp_shadow_free() as a parameter. The callback usually does reverse operations to the constructor callback that can be called by klp_shadow_*alloc(). It is especially useful for klp_shadow_free_all(). There we need to do these extra actions for each found shadow variable with the given ID. Note that the memory used by the shadow variable itself is still released later by rcu callback. It is needed to protect internal structures that keep all shadow variables. But the destructor is called immediately. The shadow variable must not be access anyway after klp_shadow_free() is called. The user is responsible to protect this any suitable way. Be aware that the destructor is called under klp_shadow_lock. It is the same as for the contructor in klp_shadow_alloc(). Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/livepatch')
-rw-r--r--kernel/livepatch/shadow.c26
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/livepatch/shadow.c b/kernel/livepatch/shadow.c
index b10a0bbb7f84..83958c814439 100644
--- a/kernel/livepatch/shadow.c
+++ b/kernel/livepatch/shadow.c
@@ -243,15 +243,26 @@ void *klp_shadow_get_or_alloc(void *obj, unsigned long id,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(klp_shadow_get_or_alloc);
+static void klp_shadow_free_struct(struct klp_shadow *shadow,
+ klp_shadow_dtor_t dtor)
+{
+ hash_del_rcu(&shadow->node);
+ if (dtor)
+ dtor(shadow->obj, shadow->data);
+ kfree_rcu(shadow, rcu_head);
+}
+
/**
* klp_shadow_free() - detach and free a <obj, id> shadow variable
* @obj: pointer to parent object
* @id: data identifier
+ * @dtor: custom callback that can be used to unregister the variable
+ * and/or free data that the shadow variable points to (optional)
*
* This function releases the memory for this <obj, id> shadow variable
* instance, callers should stop referencing it accordingly.
*/
-void klp_shadow_free(void *obj, unsigned long id)
+void klp_shadow_free(void *obj, unsigned long id, klp_shadow_dtor_t dtor)
{
struct klp_shadow *shadow;
unsigned long flags;
@@ -263,8 +274,7 @@ void klp_shadow_free(void *obj, unsigned long id)
(unsigned long)obj) {
if (klp_shadow_match(shadow, obj, id)) {
- hash_del_rcu(&shadow->node);
- kfree_rcu(shadow, rcu_head);
+ klp_shadow_free_struct(shadow, dtor);
break;
}
}
@@ -276,11 +286,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(klp_shadow_free);
/**
* klp_shadow_free_all() - detach and free all <*, id> shadow variables
* @id: data identifier
+ * @dtor: custom callback that can be used to unregister the variable
+ * and/or free data that the shadow variable points to (optional)
*
* This function releases the memory for all <*, id> shadow variable
* instances, callers should stop referencing them accordingly.
*/
-void klp_shadow_free_all(unsigned long id)
+void klp_shadow_free_all(unsigned long id, klp_shadow_dtor_t dtor)
{
struct klp_shadow *shadow;
unsigned long flags;
@@ -290,10 +302,8 @@ void klp_shadow_free_all(unsigned long id)
/* Delete all <*, id> from hash */
hash_for_each(klp_shadow_hash, i, shadow, node) {
- if (klp_shadow_match(shadow, shadow->obj, id)) {
- hash_del_rcu(&shadow->node);
- kfree_rcu(shadow, rcu_head);
- }
+ if (klp_shadow_match(shadow, shadow->obj, id))
+ klp_shadow_free_struct(shadow, dtor);
}
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&klp_shadow_lock, flags);