On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, Rusty Russell wrote: > > Remove the livepatch module notifier in favor of directly enabling and > > disabling patches to modules in the module loader. Hard-coding the > > function calls ensures that ftrace_module_enable() is run before > > klp_module_coming() during module load, and that klp_module_going() is > > run before ftrace_release_mod() during module unload. This way, ftrace > > and livepatch code is run in the correct order during the module > > load/unload sequence without dependence on the module notifier call chain. > > > > This fixes a notifier ordering issue in which the ftrace module notifier > > (and hence ftrace_module_enable()) for coming modules was being called > > after klp_module_notify(), which caused livepatch modules to initialize > > incorrectly. > > Without a Fixes: line, it's not absolutely clear whether this needs > CC:stable, needs to go to Linus now, or can wait for the next merge > window. > > I *think* you want all four merged this merge window, and 3 and 4 are > required to fix a regression introduced since 4.4... Your understanding is correct; #3 and #4 are needed to fix a 4.4 regression. It makes sense for the whole lot go to together, but for #1 and #2 I absolutely need your Ack before I take it to my tree, as I don't want to be merging this behind your back. Once you Ack #1 and #2, I plan to take this to Linus immediately so that we avoid doing these changes as very last minute. Thanks! -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- 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
