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    livepatch: add old_sympos as disambiguator field to klp_func · b2b018ef
    Chris J Arges authored
    
    
    Currently, patching objects with duplicate symbol names fail because the
    creation of the sysfs function directory collides with the previous
    attempt. Appending old_addr to the function name is problematic as it
    reveals the address of the function being patch to a normal user. Using
    the symbol's occurrence in kallsyms to postfix the function name in the
    sysfs directory solves the issue of having consistent unique names and
    ensuring that the address is not exposed to a normal user.
    
    In addition, using the symbol position as the user's method to disambiguate
    symbols instead of addr allows for disambiguating symbols in modules as
    well for both function addresses and for relocs. This also simplifies much
    of the code. Special handling for kASLR is no longer needed and can be
    removed. The klp_find_verify_func_addr function can be replaced by
    klp_find_object_symbol, and klp_verify_vmlinux_symbol and its callback can
    be removed completely.
    
    In cases of duplicate symbols, old_sympos will be used to disambiguate
    instead of old_addr. By default old_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.
    
    In addition, make old_addr an internal structure field not to be specified
    by the user. Finally, remove klp_find_verify_func_addr as it can be
    replaced by klp_find_object_symbol directly.
    
    Support for symbol position disambiguation for relocations is added in the
    next patch in this series.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarPetr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarJosh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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