Jessica Yu <[email protected]> writes:
> These are the remaining 3 patches that came from the original ftrace/livepatch
> module notifier patchset found here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/8/1180
Please add my Acked-by to the first and third.
Cheers,
Rusty.
> Basically, the patchset does a bit of module.c cleanup (patch 1 and 2) in
> preparation for the klp_module_{coming,going} calls (patch 3). We decided
> to stop relying on the module notifier callchain in favor of hard-coding
> the appropriate livepatch function calls that handle coming and going
> modules. Hard-coding these calls will guarantee that ftrace and livepatch
> exit/initialization routines are called in the correct order without
> relying on module notifiers.
>
> The patches should be nearly exactly the same as those from the previous
> discussion, except in patch 3 I've added back the #if
> IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_LIVEPATCH)
> guard in livepatch.h, and in patch 2 I decided that it might be safer to
> change mod->state with the module mutex held.
>
> Patches based on linux-next.
>
> Previous discussion found here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/8/1180
>
> Jessica Yu (3):
> modules: split part of complete_formation() into prepare_coming_module()
> modules: set mod->state to GOING before going notifiers are called
> livepatch/module: remove livepatch module notifier
>
> include/linux/livepatch.h | 13 +++++
> kernel/livepatch/core.c | 145
> ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
> kernel/module.c | 39 ++++++++++---
> 3 files changed, 113 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.4.3
