From: Julien Thierry <jthierry@redhat.com>
To: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>, Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>,
Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Cc: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>,
Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Nicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de>,
live-patching@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [POC 11/23] livepatch: Safely detect forced transition when removing split livepatch modules
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:15:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2d92bc17-0844-54dd-b6ea-8d89ce2d590b@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200117150323.21801-12-pmladek@suse.com>
Hi Petr,
On 1/17/20 3:03 PM, Petr Mladek wrote:
> The information about forced livepatch transition is currently stored
> in struct klp_patch. But there is not any obvious safe way how to
> access it when the split livepatch modules are removed.
>
If that's the only motivation to do this, klp_objects could have a
reference to the klp_patch they are part of. This could easily be set
when adding the klp_object to the klp_patch->obj_list in
klp_init_object_early() .
Having this reference could also prove useful in future scenarios.
Cheers,
--
Julien Thierry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-22 10:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-17 15:03 [POC 00/23] livepatch: Split livepatch module per-object Petr Mladek
2020-01-17 15:03 ` [POC 01/23] module: Allow to delete module also from inside kernel Petr Mladek
2020-01-21 11:11 ` Julien Thierry
2020-01-17 15:03 ` [POC 02/23] livepatch: Split livepatch modules per livepatched object Petr Mladek
2020-01-21 11:11 ` Julien Thierry
2020-01-28 12:16 ` Petr Mladek
2020-01-17 15:03 ` [POC 03/23] livepatch: Better checks of struct klp_object definition Petr Mladek
2020-01-21 11:27 ` Julien Thierry
2020-01-17 15:03 ` [POC 04/23] livepatch: Prevent loading livepatch sub-module unintentionally Petr Mladek
2020-04-03 17:54 ` Joe Lawrence
2020-01-17 15:03 ` [POC 05/23] livepatch: Initialize and free livepatch submodule Petr Mladek
2020-01-21 11:58 ` Julien Thierry
2020-01-17 15:03 ` [POC 06/23] livepatch: Enable the " Petr Mladek
2020-01-17 15:03 ` [POC 07/23] livepatch: Remove obsolete functionality from klp_module_coming() Petr Mladek
2020-01-17 15:03 ` [POC 08/23] livepatch: Automatically load livepatch module when the patch module is loaded Petr Mladek
2020-01-17 15:03 ` [POC 09/23] livepatch: Handle race when livepatches are reloaded during a module load Petr Mladek
2020-01-22 18:51 ` Julien Thierry
2020-01-17 15:03 ` [POC 10/23] livepatch: Handle modprobe exit code Petr Mladek
2020-01-17 15:03 ` [POC 11/23] livepatch: Safely detect forced transition when removing split livepatch modules Petr Mladek
2020-01-22 10:15 ` Julien Thierry [this message]
2020-01-17 15:03 ` [POC 12/23] livepatch: Automatically remove livepatch module when the object is freed Petr Mladek
2020-01-17 15:03 ` [POC 13/23] livepatch: Remove livepatch module when the livepatched module is unloaded Petr Mladek
2020-01-17 15:03 ` [POC 14/23] livepatch: Never block livepatch modules when the related module is being removed Petr Mladek
2020-01-17 15:03 ` [POC 15/23] livepatch: Prevent infinite loop when loading livepatch module Petr Mladek
2020-01-17 15:03 ` [POC 16/23] livepatch: Add patch into the global list early Petr Mladek
2020-01-17 15:03 ` [POC 17/23] livepatch: Load livepatches for modules when loading the main livepatch Petr Mladek
2020-01-17 15:03 ` [POC 18/23] module: Refactor add_unformed_module() Petr Mladek
2020-01-17 15:03 ` [POC 19/23] module/livepatch: Allow to use exported symbols from livepatch module for "vmlinux" Petr Mladek
2020-04-06 18:48 ` Joe Lawrence
2020-04-07 7:33 ` Miroslav Benes
2020-04-07 20:57 ` Joe Lawrence
2020-01-17 15:03 ` [POC 20/23] module/livepatch: Relocate local variables in the module loaded when the livepatch is being loaded Petr Mladek
2020-01-18 10:29 ` kbuild test robot
2020-04-03 18:00 ` Joe Lawrence
2020-01-17 15:03 ` [POC 21/23] livepatch: Remove obsolete arch_klp_init_object_loaded() Petr Mladek
2020-01-17 15:03 ` [POC 22/23] livepatch/module: Remove obsolete copy_module_elf() Petr Mladek
2020-04-03 18:03 ` Joe Lawrence
2020-01-17 15:03 ` [POC 23/23] module: Remove obsolete module_disable_ro() Petr Mladek
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