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From: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
To: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
	jikos@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] livepatch: Clear relocation targets on a module removal
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 13:05:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5c649320-a9bf-ae7f-5102-483bc34d219f@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.21.1909021802180.29987@pobox.suse.cz>

On 9/2/19 12:13 PM, Miroslav Benes wrote:
>> I can easily foresee more problems like those in the future.  Going
>> forward we have to always keep track of which special sections are
>> needed for which architectures.  Those special sections can change over
>> time, or can simply be overlooked for a given architecture.  It's
>> fragile.
> 
> Indeed. It bothers me a lot. Even x86 "port" is not feature complete in
> this regard (jump labels, alternatives,...) and who knows what lurks in
> the corners of the other architectures we support.
> 
> So it is in itself reason enough to do something about late module
> patching.
> 

Hi Miroslav,

I was tinkering with the "blue-sky" ideas that I mentioned to Josh the 
other day.  I dunno if you had a chance to look at what removing that 
code looks like, but I can continue to flesh out that idea if it looks 
interesting:

   https://github.com/joe-lawrence/linux/tree/blue-sky

A full demo would require packaging up replacement .ko's with a 
livepatch, as well as "blacklisting" those deprecated .kos, etc.  But 
that's all I had time to cook up last week before our holiday weekend here.

Regards,

-- Joe

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-02 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-19 12:28 [RFC PATCH 0/2] livepatch: Clear relocation targets on a module removal Miroslav Benes
2019-07-19 12:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] livepatch: Nullify obj->mod in klp_module_coming()'s error path Miroslav Benes
2019-07-28 19:45   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-08-19 11:26     ` Petr Mladek
2019-07-19 12:28 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] livepatch: Clear relocation targets on a module removal Miroslav Benes
2019-07-22  9:33   ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-14 12:33     ` Miroslav Benes
2019-07-28 20:04   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-08-14 11:06     ` Miroslav Benes
2019-08-14 15:12       ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-08-16  9:46         ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-22 22:36           ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-08-23  8:13             ` Petr Mladek
2019-08-26 14:54               ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-08-27 15:05                 ` Joe Lawrence
2019-08-27 15:37                   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-09-02 16:13                 ` Miroslav Benes
2019-09-02 17:05                   ` Joe Lawrence [this message]
2019-09-03 13:02                     ` Miroslav Benes
2019-09-04  8:49                       ` Petr Mladek
2019-09-04 16:26                         ` Joe Lawrence
2019-09-05  2:50                         ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-09-05 11:09                           ` Petr Mladek
2019-09-05 11:19                             ` Jiri Kosina
2019-09-05 13:23                               ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-09-05 13:31                                 ` Jiri Kosina
2019-09-05 13:42                                   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-09-05 11:39                             ` Joe Lawrence
2019-09-05 13:08                             ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-09-05 13:15                               ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-09-05 13:52                                 ` Petr Mladek
2019-09-05 14:28                                   ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-09-05 12:03                           ` Miroslav Benes
2019-09-05 12:35                             ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-09-05 12:49                               ` Miroslav Benes
2019-09-05 11:52                         ` Miroslav Benes
2019-09-05  2:32                       ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-09-05 12:16                         ` Miroslav Benes
2019-09-05 12:54                           ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-09-06 12:51                             ` Miroslav Benes
2019-09-06 15:38                               ` Joe Lawrence
2019-09-06 16:45                               ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-08-26 13:44         ` Nicolai Stange
2019-08-26 15:02           ` Josh Poimboeuf

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