Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 15:06:18 +0100 (CET)
From: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
To: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
        Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
        live-patching@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, kpatch@redhat.com,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv7 1/3] kernel: add TAINT_LIVEPATCH
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On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, Seth Jennings wrote:

> This adds a new taint flag to indicate when the kernel or a kernel
> module has been live patched.  This will provide a clean indication in
> bug reports that live patching was used.
> 
> Additionally, if the crash occurs in a live patched function, the live
> patch module will appear beside the patched function in the backtrace.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>

Thanks,
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Miroslav Benes
SUSE Labs
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