[PATCH v4 0/5] liveupdate: tighten handover cleanup and session lifetime
Oskar Gerlicz Kowalczuk
oskar at gerlicz.space
Tue Mar 24 14:27:25 PDT 2026
Hi Pasha,
this v4 keeps the simpler direction from your mail: outgoing handover is
still driven by a boolean rebooting gate, refcount pinning of outgoing
sessions during serialization, and session->mutex as the serialization
point for in-flight mutations. There is no return to the earlier closing
counter or a larger session state machine.
The main changes in this respin are:
- reshape the series into five commits, each building and standing on its
own
- keep incoming session origin immutable and use retrieved only as the
checked-out bit
- make FINISH and implicit close consume incoming sessions without
reopening races through retrieve-by-name
- route deserialize failures through explicit rollback paths for
sessions, files, and serialized memfd state
- validate KHO-preserved extents before walking serialized metadata
- harden incoming FLB lifetime and remaining teardown paths
Patches 1-4 keep the core session, kexec, deserialize and validation work
separate. Patch 5 carries the remaining FLB and teardown fixes needed to
match the final tree.
Oskar Gerlicz Kowalczuk (5):
liveupdate: block outgoing session updates during reboot
kexec: abort liveupdate handover on kernel_kexec() unwind
liveupdate: fail session restore on file deserialization errors
liveupdate: validate handover metadata before using it
liveupdate: harden FLB lifetime and remaining teardown paths
include/linux/kexec_handover.h | 13 +
include/linux/liveupdate.h | 17 +-
kernel/kexec_core.c | 4 +
kernel/liveupdate/kexec_handover.c | 22 ++
kernel/liveupdate/luo_core.c | 16 +-
kernel/liveupdate/luo_file.c | 237 ++++++++++++--
kernel/liveupdate/luo_flb.c | 116 +++++--
kernel/liveupdate/luo_internal.h | 14 +-
kernel/liveupdate/luo_session.c | 500 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
lib/tests/liveupdate.c | 2 +
mm/memfd_luo.c | 160 +++++++--
11 files changed, 934 insertions(+), 167 deletions(-)
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2.53.0
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