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  [GIT PULL] livepatching for 4.9 Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> - 2016-10-07 11:00 +0200

#1497083 — [GIT PULL] livepatching for 4.9

Linus,

please pull from

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching.git for-linus

to receive livepatching queue for 4.9 merge window:

==========
- fix for patching modules that contain .altinstructions or 
  .parainstructions sections, from Jessica Yu
- make TAINT_LIVEPATCH a per-module flag (so that it's immediately
  clear which module caused the taint), from Josh Poimboeuf
==========

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Jessica Yu (3):
      livepatch: use arch_klp_init_object_loaded() to finish arch-specific tasks
      livepatch/x86: apply alternatives and paravirt patches after relocations
      Documentation: livepatch: add section about arch-specific code

Josh Poimboeuf (1):
      livepatch/module: make TAINT_LIVEPATCH module-specific

 Documentation/livepatch/module-elf-format.txt | 20 +++++++--
 arch/x86/kernel/Makefile                      |  1 +
 arch/x86/kernel/livepatch.c                   | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/livepatch.h                     |  3 ++
 kernel/livepatch/core.c                       | 19 +++++---
 kernel/module.c                               | 13 ++++--
 6 files changed, 107 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/livepatch.c

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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