On Fri, Aug 7, 2026 at 2:38 PM Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]> wrote: > > Explicitly disallow the patching and referencing of init code/data. > Otherwise it could potentially introduce some odd edge cases depending > on whether the target object's init section has been freed yet (note > that the init code still exists in the target module when doing late > module patching). > > Such edge cases include sympos calculation and the patching and/or > referencing of non-existent (init-freed) code/data. Not to mention the > inherent differences in behavior that occur when the init code is only > patched *some* of the time depending on module loading order or kernel > config. > > Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Song Liu <[email protected]>
