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From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: andrew.cooper3@citrix.com, julien.grall@arm.com,
	sstabellini@kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xen.org,
	ross.lagerwall@citrix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] xen/livepatch: Don't crash on encountering STN_UNDEF relocations
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 14:30:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170619183035.GB21025@char.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5941934102000078001007FA@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 12:49:21PM -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> 06/14/17 8:34 PM >>>
> >Well - I've got a livepatch with such a relocation.  It is probably a
> >livepatch build tools issue, but the question is whether Xen should ever
> >accept such a livepatch or not (irrespective of whether this exact
> >relocation is permitted within the ELF spec).
> 
> Since the spec explicitly mentions that case, I think we'd better support it.
> But it wouldn't be the end of the world if we didn't, as presumably there
> aren't that many use cases for it.

OK. In that case:

Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>


Andrew,

Do you think it would be possible to generate an test-case for this
in arch/test/livepatch?

> 
> Jan
> 

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-19 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-13 20:51 [PATCH 1/2] xen/livepatch: Clean up arch relocation handling Andrew Cooper
2017-06-13 20:51 ` [PATCH 2/2] xen/livepatch: Don't crash on encountering STN_UNDEF relocations Andrew Cooper
2017-06-13 21:13   ` Andrew Cooper
2017-06-14 10:03     ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-14 10:11   ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-14 10:13     ` Andrew Cooper
2017-06-14 10:24       ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-14 14:18         ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-06-14 18:33           ` Andrew Cooper
2017-06-14 18:49             ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-19 18:30               ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk [this message]
2017-06-19 23:05                 ` Andrew Cooper
2017-06-20  7:15                   ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-20 13:30                     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-06-14 19:08             ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-06-21 18:13   ` [PATCH for-4.9 v2] " Andrew Cooper
2017-06-22  1:26     ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-06-22 15:27       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-06-22 16:10         ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-06-22 16:33           ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-06-22 17:05             ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-06-23  9:44               ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-22  7:40     ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-22  9:49     ` Ross Lagerwall
2017-06-14  9:25 ` [PATCH 1/2] xen/livepatch: Clean up arch relocation handling Jan Beulich
2017-06-14 13:44 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-06-14 14:02   ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-14 18:28     ` Andrew Cooper
2017-06-19 18:18       ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-06-20  7:36         ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-20  7:39           ` Andrew Cooper
2017-06-20  7:41             ` Andrew Cooper
2017-06-20  7:56             ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-20 13:36               ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2017-06-22  1:27 ` Is [PATCH for-4.9] Was:Re: " Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

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