Merge branch 'for-4.16/remove-immediate' into for-linus

[muen/linux.git] / kernel / livepatch / core.c

diff --git a/kernel/livepatch/core.c b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
index 8fd8e8f126dab4c17b1292fd377c00f9ff6f7f5a..3a4656fb7047c24bde87c644cb79902df2a6adba 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/livepatch/core.c
+++ b/kernel/livepatch/core.c
@@ -366,11 +366,6 @@ static int __klp_enable_patch(struct klp_patch *patch)
        /*
         * A reference is taken on the patch module to prevent it from being
         * unloaded.
-        *
-        * Note: For immediate (no consistency model) patches we don't allow
-        * patch modules to unload since there is no safe/sane method to
-        * determine if a thread is still running in the patched code contained
-        * in the patch module once the ftrace registration is successful.
         */
        if (!try_module_get(patch->mod))
                return -ENODEV;
@@ -894,12 +889,7 @@ int klp_register_patch(struct klp_patch *patch)
        if (!klp_initialized())
                return -ENODEV;
 
-       /*
-        * Architectures without reliable stack traces have to set
-        * patch->immediate because there's currently no way to patch kthreads
-        * with the consistency model.
-        */
-       if (!klp_have_reliable_stack() && !patch->immediate) {
+       if (!klp_have_reliable_stack()) {
                pr_err("This architecture doesn't have support for the livepatch consistency model.\n");
                return -ENOSYS;
        }