[PATCH v3 13/15] livepatch: change to a per-task consistency model
Miroslav Benes
mbenes at suse.cz
Thu Jan 5 20:34:57 AEDT 2017
> @@ -740,6 +809,14 @@ int klp_register_patch(struct klp_patch *patch)
> return -ENODEV;
>
> /*
> + * Architectures without reliable stack traces have to set
> + * patch->immediate because there's currently no way to patch kthreads
> + * with the consistency model.
> + */
> + if (!klp_have_reliable_stack() && !patch->immediate)
> + return -ENOSYS;
> +
I think an error message (pr_err) would be appropriate here.
$ insmod patch_1.ko
insmod: ERROR: could not insert module patch_1.ko: Function not implemented
is not helpful much :)
Miroslav
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