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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 00/10] livepatch: Atomic replace feature
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From:   Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
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On 03/08/2018 10:01 AM, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Wed 2018-03-07 16:55:53, Joe Lawrence wrote:
>> Running against v10, callbacks seem to be good up until I disable an
>> atomic replace patch.  My understanding is that the original patch's
>> unpatch callbacks should be skipped (as they were).  I was surprised to
>> see that atomic replacement patch only ran it's post-unpatch callback.
> 
> Great catch!
> 
> I guess that it is caused by the heuristic used in
> klp_unpatch_object() to decide whether the object is patched
> or not.
> 
> We need to change the state only when manipulating the
> statically defined functions.
> 
> Thanks a lot for so extensive testing!!!

Sorry for not getting to this series sooner.  I'm trying to refit these
tests into a kselftest so we can more easily reuse them.  Still hacking
away at it, but I'll post when something soon to start a livepatch
selftests conversation :)

-- Joe