Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/9] klp: Fix obvious RCU fail

[Jiri Kosina]

On Mon, 2 Mar 2015, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> > Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
> > 
> > I guess you'll be taking this together with the series, so I am not 
> > applying it.
> 
> Feel free to take it; this series might take a wee while longer to
> mature.

OK, thanks.

> That said; I do have a follow up question on that code. So now you've
> successfully obtained an address in module space; but the moment you
> release that RCU-sched lock, the module can be gone.
> 
> How does the whole live patching stuff deal with module removal during
> patching?

We have a module notifier that serializes using klp_mutex with the 
patching. Do you see a problem there?

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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