Re: [PATCH v13 05/12] livepatch: Refuse to unload only livepatches available during a forced transition

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Wed Oct 17 2018 - 14:35:30 EST


I'm having trouble parsing the subject. How about:

Allow unloading of patches added after using 'force'

?

> --- a/kernel/livepatch/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
> @@ -45,7 +45,8 @@
> */
> DEFINE_MUTEX(klp_mutex);
>
> -static LIST_HEAD(klp_patches);
> +/* Registered patches */
> +LIST_HEAD(klp_patches);

Instead of making this non-static, can we just move
klp_force_transition() to core.c? It's nice to have all the list
management code encapsulated in the same file.

--
Josh