From: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
To: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
jikos@kernel.org, joe.lawrence@redhat.com,
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 18:13:21 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.21.1909021802180.29987@pobox.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190826145449.wyo7avwpqyriem46@treble>
> 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.
Miroslav
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-02 16:13 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 [this message]
2019-09-02 17:05 ` Joe Lawrence
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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