livepatch: make kobject in klp_object statically allocated
Make kobj variable (of type struct kobject) statically allocated in
klp_object structure. It will allow us to move in the func-object-patch
hierarchy through kobject links.
The only reason to have it dynamic was to not have empty release
callback in the code. However we have empty callbacks for function and
patch in the code now, so it is no longer valid and the advantage of
static allocation is clear.
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
diff --git a/kernel/livepatch/core.c b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
index c03c046..e997782 100644
--- a/kernel/livepatch/core.c
+++ b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
@@ -651,6 +651,15 @@
.default_attrs = klp_patch_attrs,
};
+static void klp_kobj_release_object(struct kobject *kobj)
+{
+}
+
+static struct kobj_type klp_ktype_object = {
+ .release = klp_kobj_release_object,
+ .sysfs_ops = &kobj_sysfs_ops,
+};
+
static void klp_kobj_release_func(struct kobject *kobj)
{
}
@@ -695,7 +704,7 @@
for (obj = patch->objs; obj->funcs && obj != limit; obj++) {
klp_free_funcs_limited(obj, NULL);
- kobject_put(obj->kobj);
+ kobject_put(&obj->kobj);
}
}
@@ -713,7 +722,7 @@
func->state = KLP_DISABLED;
return kobject_init_and_add(&func->kobj, &klp_ktype_func,
- obj->kobj, "%s", func->old_name);
+ &obj->kobj, "%s", func->old_name);
}
/* parts of the initialization that is done only when the object is loaded */
@@ -753,9 +762,10 @@
klp_find_object_module(obj);
name = klp_is_module(obj) ? obj->name : "vmlinux";
- obj->kobj = kobject_create_and_add(name, &patch->kobj);
- if (!obj->kobj)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ ret = kobject_init_and_add(&obj->kobj, &klp_ktype_object,
+ &patch->kobj, "%s", name);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
for (func = obj->funcs; func->old_name; func++) {
ret = klp_init_func(obj, func);
@@ -773,7 +783,7 @@
free:
klp_free_funcs_limited(obj, func);
- kobject_put(obj->kobj);
+ kobject_put(&obj->kobj);
return ret;
}