Re: module: save load_info for livepatch modules

+++ Miroslav Benes [13/11/15 13:56 +0100]:

On Fri, 13 Nov 2015, Miroslav Benes wrote:

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I agree this seems like the best approach. So if we preserve
mod_arch_syminfo (in case of s390) we should free it not in
module_finalize, but somewhere in free_module... where
module_arch_cleanup() is called... and also module_arch_freeing_init() is
called there too. And what you find there for s390 is

	vfree(mod->arch.syminfo);
	mod->arch.syminfo = NULL;

Well, it does nothing here, because mod->arch.syminfo is already NULL. It
was freed in module_finalize. So we can even remove this code from
module_finalize and all should be fine. At least for s390.

Which is not true because module_arch_freeing_init is also called from
do_init_module, called from load_module. So we should move it to
module_arch_cleanup.

That code is like a maze without Ariadne's thread.

Heh, I agree with that sentiment.

I am slightly confused about the s390 code, and whether the authors
originally intended for that double vfree() to happen in both
module_finalize() and module_arch_freeing_init() (called from
do_init_module). Seems like a mistake. If module load succeeds,
do_init_module calls module_arch_freeing_init(). And if load_module
fails halfway through, both module_deallocate() and free_module() will
also call module_arch_freeing_init(). I feel like that vfree should
only happen once in module_arch_freeing_init() and not in
module_finalize(). If we can remove the double vfree() code from
module_finalize(), we can copy the mod_arch_specific safely before the
call to do_init_module().

Jessica