On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 11:02:59PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Wed, 4 Mar 2015, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > > > Well, we could just get a reference on all patched modules to prevent them > > from being unloaded. > > Is that really a solution for cases where you are unloading a module (it > has "just" been switched to MODULE_STATE_GOING) and enable a patch which > patches one of its functions directly after it got switched to > MODULE_STATE_GOING? Ah, right. try_module_get() fails, we don't patch the module, and we end up in the same mod->exit() race. Never mind, again :-) -- Josh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe live-patching" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
