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Pasha Tatashin 9a4301f715 kho: remove abort functionality and support state refresh
Previously, KHO required a dedicated kho_abort() function to clean up
state before kho_finalize() could be called again.  This was necessary to
handle complex unwind paths when using notifiers.

With the shift to direct memory preservation, the explicit abort step is
no longer strictly necessary.

Remove kho_abort() and refactor kho_finalize() to handle re-entry.  If
kho_finalize() is called while KHO is already finalized, it will now
automatically clean up the previous memory map and state before generating
a new one.  This allows the KHO state to be updated/refreshed simply by
triggering finalize again.

Update debugfs to return -EINVAL if userspace attempts to write 0 to the
finalize attribute, as explicit abort is no longer supported.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251114190002.3311679-10-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Suggested-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Vasilevsky <dave@vasilevsky.ca>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-27 14:24:36 -08:00
arch Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-nonmm-stable in order to be able 2025-11-27 14:17:02 -08:00
block block-6.18-20251031 2025-10-31 12:57:19 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto This push contains the following changes: 2025-10-10 08:56:16 -07:00
Documentation liveupdate: kho: move to kernel/liveupdate 2025-11-27 14:24:33 -08:00
drivers lib/base64: add support for multiple variants 2025-11-20 14:03:43 -08:00
fs Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-nonmm-stable in order to be able 2025-11-27 14:17:02 -08:00
include kho: introduce high-level memory allocation API 2025-11-27 14:24:34 -08:00
init liveupdate: kho: move to kernel/liveupdate 2025-11-27 14:24:33 -08:00
io_uring io_uring: fix regbuf vector size truncation 2025-11-07 17:17:13 -07:00
ipc ipc: create_ipc_ns: drop mqueue mount on sysctl setup failure 2025-11-12 10:00:15 -08:00
kernel kho: remove abort functionality and support state refresh 2025-11-27 14:24:36 -08:00
lib test_kho: unpreserve memory in case of error 2025-11-27 14:24:32 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm memblock: unpreserve memory in case of error 2025-11-27 14:24:32 -08:00
net Including fixes from bluetooth and wireless. 2025-11-06 08:52:30 -08:00
rust rbtree: inline rb_last() 2025-11-27 14:24:30 -08:00
samples selftests: complete kselftest include centralization 2025-11-27 14:24:31 -08:00
scripts Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-nonmm-stable in order to be able 2025-11-27 14:17:02 -08:00
security integrity-v6.18 2025-10-05 10:48:33 -07:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v6.18 2025-10-30 13:08:08 +01:00
tools kho: make debugfs interface optional 2025-11-27 14:24:31 -08:00
usr gen_init_cpio: Ignore fsync() returning EINVAL on pipes 2025-10-07 09:53:05 -07:00
virt KVM x86 fixes for 6.18: 2025-10-18 10:25:43 +02:00
.clang-format memblock: drop for_each_free_mem_pfn_range_in_zone_from() 2025-09-14 08:49:03 +03:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: remove Alyssa Rosenzweig 2025-09-18 21:17:31 +02:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore compile_commands.json globally 2025-08-12 15:53:55 -07:00
.mailmap Merge branch 'mm-hotfixes-stable' into mm-nonmm-stable in order to be able 2025-11-27 14:17:02 -08:00
.pylintrc tools: docs: parse-headers.py: move it from sphinx dir 2025-08-29 15:54:42 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS CREDITS: update Martin's information 2025-11-12 10:00:14 -08:00
Kbuild sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline 2025-09-25 09:57:16 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: update KHO maintainers 2025-11-27 14:24:33 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.18-rc5 2025-11-09 15:10:19 -08:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.