linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] livepatch: Keep replaced patches until post

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Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.21.1908131523260.10477@pobox.suse.cz>
Date:   Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:24:30 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
cc:     Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>,
        Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Nicolai Stange <nstange@...e.de>,
        live-patching@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] livepatch: Keep replaced patches until post_patch
 callback is called

On Fri, 19 Jul 2019, Petr Mladek wrote:

> Pre/post (un)patch callbacks might manipulate the system state. Cumulative
> livepatches might need to take over the changes made by the replaced
> ones. For this they might need to access some data stored or referenced
> by the old livepatches.
> 
> Therefore the replaced livepatches has to stay around until post_patch()

s/has/have/

Miroslav