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Pawel Wieczorkiewicz
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This is the initial implementation of the expectations enhancement to improve inline asm livepatching. Expectations are designed as optional feature, since the main use of them is planned for inline asm livepatching. The flag enabled allows to control the expectation state. Each expectation has data and len fields that describe the data that is expected to be found at a given patching (old_addr) location. The len must not exceed the data array size. The data array size follows the size of the opaque array, since the opaque array holds the original data and therefore must match what is specified in the expectation (if enabled). The payload structure is modified as each expectation structure is part of the livepatch_func structure and hence extends the payload. Each expectation is checked prior to the apply action (i.e. as late as possible to check against the most current state of the code). For the replace action a new payload's expectations are checked AFTER all applied payloads are successfully reverted, but BEFORE new payload is applied. That breaks the replace action's atomicity and in case of an expectation check failure would leave a system with all payloads reverted. That is obviously insecure. Use it with caution and act upon replace errors! Signed-off-by: Pawel Wieczorkiewicz <wipawel@amazon.de> Reviewed-by: Andra-Irina Paraschiv <andraprs@amazon.com> Reviewed-by: Martin Pohlack <mpohlack@amazon.de> Reviewed-by: Norbert Manthey <nmanthey@amazon.de> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>