Linux kernel stable tree (mirror) https://git.radix-linux.su/kernel/linux.git/atom?h=v6.19.11 2025-10-14T21:50:18+00:00 2025-10-14T21:50:18+00:00 Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@kernel.org 2025-09-17T16:04:01+00:00 urn:sha1:ebe864b55304f74c4e1a8b6c899e34446b2be424 Livepatch needs some ELF magic which linkers don't like: - Two relocation sections (.rela*, .klp.rela*) for the same text section. - Use of SHN_LIVEPATCH to mark livepatch symbols. Unfortunately linkers tend to mangle such things. To work around that, klp diff generates a linker-compliant intermediate binary which encodes the relevant KLP section/reloc/symbol metadata. After module linking, the .ko then needs to be converted to an actual livepatch module. Introduce a new klp post-link subcommand to do so. Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>