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Petr Mladek d67a537209 livepatch: Remove ordering (stacking) of the livepatches
The atomic replace and cumulative patches were introduced as a more secure
way to handle dependent patches. They simplify the logic:

  + Any new cumulative patch is supposed to take over shadow variables
    and changes made by callbacks from previous livepatches.

  + All replaced patches are discarded and the modules can be unloaded.
    As a result, there is only one scenario when a cumulative livepatch
    gets disabled.

The different handling of "normal" and cumulative patches might cause
confusion. It would make sense to keep only one mode. On the other hand,
it would be rude to enforce using the cumulative livepatches even for
trivial and independent (hot) fixes.

However, the stack of patches is not really necessary any longer.
The patch ordering was never clearly visible via the sysfs interface.
Also the "normal" patches need a lot of caution anyway.

Note that the list of enabled patches is still necessary but the ordering
is not longer enforced.

Otherwise, the code is ready to disable livepatches in an random order.
Namely, klp_check_stack_func() always looks for the function from
the livepatch that is being disabled. klp_func structures are just
removed from the related func_stack. Finally, the ftrace handlers
is removed only when the func_stack becomes empty.

Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2019-01-11 20:51:24 +01:00
arch It appears that the zero-day bot did find a bug in my sh build. 2019-01-05 14:08:00 -08:00
block for-4.21/block-20190102 2019-01-02 18:49:58 -08:00
certs
crypto Kconfig updates for v4.21 2018-12-29 13:03:29 -08:00
Documentation livepatch: Remove ordering (stacking) of the livepatches 2019-01-11 20:51:24 +01:00
drivers Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux 2019-01-05 16:07:28 -08:00
firmware firmware: refactor firmware/Makefile 2018-12-23 10:10:32 +09:00
fs three fixes, one for stable, one adds the (most secure) SMB3.1.1 dialect to default list requested 2019-01-05 14:05:06 -08:00
include livepatch: Add atomic replace 2019-01-11 20:51:24 +01:00
init Merge branch 'mount.part1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-01-05 13:25:58 -08:00
ipc
kernel livepatch: Remove ordering (stacking) of the livepatches 2019-01-11 20:51:24 +01:00
lib lib/genalloc.c: include vmalloc.h 2019-01-05 13:54:53 -08:00
LICENSES
mm Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-01-05 09:16:18 -08:00
net A fairly quiet round: a couple of messenger performance improvements 2019-01-05 13:58:08 -08:00
samples livepatch: Simplify API by removing registration step 2019-01-11 20:51:24 +01:00
scripts Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-01-05 13:18:59 -08:00
security Merge branch 'mount.part1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-01-05 13:25:58 -08:00
sound Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function 2019-01-03 18:57:57 -08:00
tools Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-01-05 09:16:18 -08:00
usr user/Makefile: Fix typo and capitalization in comment section 2018-12-11 00:18:03 +09:00
virt Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-01-05 09:16:18 -08:00
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.gitignore kbuild: Add support for DT binding schema checks 2018-12-13 09:41:32 -06:00
.mailmap A few early MIPS fixes for 4.21: 2019-01-05 12:48:25 -08:00
COPYING
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update entry for MMP platform 2018-12-03 12:39:57 -08:00
Kbuild kbuild: remove unused cmd_gentimeconst 2018-12-25 00:10:30 +09:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/evalenti/linux-soc-thermal 2019-01-05 16:01:16 -08:00
Makefile Kbuild updates for v4.21 2018-12-29 12:03:17 -08:00
README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.