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Date:   Tue, 17 Apr 2018 13:44:28 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] livepatch: Allocate and free shadow variables
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2018, Petr Mladek wrote:

> Nikolai started to use shadow variables and found that list_head
> is not initialized correctly using the existing API.
> 
> The problem is that LIST_HEAD_INIT() set pointers to itself.
> klp_shadow_alloc() then copies these pointers to another location.

Queued in for-4.17/upstream-fixes. Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs