livepatch: remove unnecessary object loaded check

klp_patch_object()'s callers already ensure that the object is loaded,
so its call to klp_is_object_loaded() is unnecessary.

This will also make it possible to move the patching code into a
separate file.

Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/livepatch/core.c b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
index 2dbd355cee07..47ed643a6362 100644
--- a/kernel/livepatch/core.c
+++ b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
@@ -467,9 +467,6 @@ static int klp_patch_object(struct klp_object *obj)
         if (WARN_ON(obj->patched))
                 return -EINVAL;
 
-        if (WARN_ON(!klp_is_object_loaded(obj)))
-                return -EINVAL;
-
         klp_for_each_func(obj, func) {
                 ret = klp_patch_func(func);
                 if (ret) {