ppc64le STRICT_MODULE_RWX and livepatch apply_relocate_add() crashes

Joe Lawrence joe.lawrence at redhat.com
Tue Nov 2 00:48:35 AEDT 2021


On 11/1/21 5:20 AM, Russell Currey wrote:
> I'm looking into this now, will update when there's progress.  I
> personally wasn't aware but Jordan flagged this as an issue back in
> August [0].  Are the selftests in the klp-convert tree sufficient for
> testing?  I'm not especially familiar with livepatching & haven't used
> the userspace tools.
> 

Hi Russell, thanks for taking a look.

Testing with that klp-convert tree is probably the quickest and easiest
way to verify the late relocations.

I'm happy to setup and test additional tools (ie, kpatch-build) with any
potential changes as I know they take longer to config and run.

Thanks,

-- 
Joe



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