linux-kernel - Re: Oops caused by race between livepatch and ftrace

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Date:   Tue, 21 May 2019 16:00:14 -0500
From:   Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
To:     Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>
Cc:     Johannes Erdfelt <johannes@...felt.com>,
        Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>, Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
        Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, live-patching@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Oops caused by race between livepatch and ftrace

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