Re: PATCH v6 0/6] livepatch: Atomic replace feature

[Joe Lawrence]

On 02/01/2018 08:49 AM, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> 
> Well, one more thing. I think there is a problem with shadow variables. 
> Similar to callbacks situation. Shadow variables cannot be destroyed the 
> way it is shown in our samples. Cumulative patches want to preserve 
> everything as much as possible. If I'm right, it should be mentioned in 
> the documentation.

Are you talking about using klp_shadow_free_all() call in a module_exit
routine?  Yeah, I think in this case, that responsibility would be
passed to the newly loaded cumulative patch, right?


-- Joe