On 05.11.19 20:49, Andrew Cooper wrote:
The safety of livepatching depends on every stack having been unwound, but
there is one corner case where this is not true. The Sharing/Paging/Monitor
infrastructure may use waitqueues, which copy the stack frame sideways and
longjmp() to a different vcpu.
This case is rare, and can be worked around by pausing the offending
domain(s), waiting for their rings to drain, then performing a livepatch.
In the case that there is an active waitqueue, fail the livepatch attempt with
-EBUSY, which is preforable to the fireworks which occur from trying to unwind
the old stack frame at a later point.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com>
Release-acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com>
Juergen
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