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Petr Mladek 49ee4dd2e7 livepatch: Proper error handling in the shadow variables selftest
Add proper error handling when allocating or getting shadow variables
in the selftest. It prevents an invalid pointer access in some situations.
It shows the good programming practice in the others.

The error codes are just the best guess and specific for this particular
test. In general, klp_shadow_alloc() returns NULL also when the given
shadow variable has already been allocated. In addition, both
klp_shadow_alloc() and klp_shadow_get_or_alloc() might fail from
other reasons when the constructor fails.

Note, that the error code is not really important even in the real life.
The use of shadow variables should be transparent for the original
livepatched code.

Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
2019-02-06 11:01:57 +01:00
Documentation selftests/livepatch: introduce tests 2019-01-11 20:51:24 +01:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
arch It appears that the zero-day bot did find a bug in my sh build. 2019-01-05 14:08:00 -08:00
block for-4.21/block-20190102 2019-01-02 18:49:58 -08:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto Kconfig updates for v4.21 2018-12-29 13:03:29 -08:00
drivers Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux 2019-01-05 16:07:28 -08:00
firmware firmware: refactor firmware/Makefile 2018-12-23 10:10:32 +09:00
fs three fixes, one for stable, one adds the (most secure) SMB3.1.1 dialect to default list requested 2019-01-05 14:05:06 -08:00
include livepatch: Add atomic replace 2019-01-11 20:51:24 +01:00
init Merge branch 'mount.part1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-01-05 13:25:58 -08:00
ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
kernel livepatch: Introduce klp_for_each_patch macro 2019-02-06 10:49:30 +01:00
lib livepatch: Proper error handling in the shadow variables selftest 2019-02-06 11:01:57 +01:00
mm Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-01-05 09:16:18 -08:00
net A fairly quiet round: a couple of messenger performance improvements 2019-01-05 13:58:08 -08:00
samples livepatch: Simplify API by removing registration step 2019-01-11 20:51:24 +01:00
scripts Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-01-05 13:18:59 -08:00
security Merge branch 'mount.part1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-01-05 13:25:58 -08:00
sound Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function 2019-01-03 18:57:57 -08:00
tools selftests/livepatch: introduce tests 2019-01-11 20:51:24 +01:00
usr user/Makefile: Fix typo and capitalization in comment section 2018-12-11 00:18:03 +09:00
virt Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-01-05 09:16:18 -08:00
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.gitignore kbuild: Add support for DT binding schema checks 2018-12-13 09:41:32 -06:00
.mailmap A few early MIPS fixes for 4.21: 2019-01-05 12:48:25 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update entry for MMP platform 2018-12-03 12:39:57 -08:00
Kbuild kbuild: remove unused cmd_gentimeconst 2018-12-25 00:10:30 +09:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS selftests/livepatch: introduce tests 2019-01-11 20:51:24 +01:00
Makefile Kbuild updates for v4.21 2018-12-29 12:03:17 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.