Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] livepatch: new API to track system state changes

From: Josh Poimboeuf
Date: Thu Oct 31 2019 - 14:07:09 EST


On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 04:43:08PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is another piece in the puzzle that helps to maintain more
> livepatches.
>
> Especially pre/post (un)patch callbacks might change a system state.
> Any newly installed livepatch has to somehow deal with system state
> modifications done be already installed livepatches.
>
> This patchset provides a simple and generic API that
> helps to keep and pass information between the livepatches.
> It is also usable to prevent loading incompatible livepatches.
>
> Changes since v3:
>
> + selftests compilation error [kbuild test robot]
> + fix copyright in selftests [Joe]
> + used macros for the module names in selftests [Joe]
> + allow zero state version [Josh]
> + slightly refactor the code for checking state version [Josh]
> + fix few typos reported by checkpatch.pl [Petr]
> + added Acks [Joe]

Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx>

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Josh