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Chris J Arges committed b2b018ef486
livepatch: add old_sympos as disambiguator field to klp_func 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: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>