Re: Oops caused by race between livepatch and ftrace

[Josh Poimboeuf]

On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 03:27:47PM -0400, Joe Lawrence wrote:
> BTW, livepatching folks -- speaking of this window, does it make sense for
> klp_init_object_loaded() to unconditionally frob the module section
> permissions?  Should it only bother iff it's going to apply
> relocations/alternatives/paravirt?

Yeah, technically there shouldn't be a need to do the frobbing unless
there are .klp.rela or .klp.arch sections for the given object.  Though
I'm not sure it really matters all that much since loading a livepatch
is a pretty rare event.

-- 
Josh