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Pull liveupdate updates from Mike Rapoport:
"Kexec Handover (KHO):
- make memory preservation compatible with deferred initialization
of the memory map
Live Update Orchestrator (LUO):
- add LIVEUPDATE_SESSION_GET_NAME ioctl and parameter verification
for LIVEUPDATE_IOCTL_CREATE_SESSION ioctl
- documentation updates for liveupdate=on command line option,
systemd support and the current compatibility status
- remove the fixed limits on the number of files that can be
preserved within a single session, and the total number of
sessions managed by the LUO
Misc fixes:
- reference count incoming File-Lifecycle-Bound (FLB) data so
it cannot be freed while a subsystem is still using it
- fixes for a TOCTOU race in luo_session_retrieve(), a use-
after-free in the file finish and unpreserve paths, concurrent
session mutations during reboot and serialization on
preserve_context kexec
- make sure ioctls for incoming LUO sessions are blocked for
outgoing sessions and vice versa
- make sure KHO scratch size is always aligned by
CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES
- fix memblock tests build issue introduced by KHO changes"
* tag 'liveupdate-v7.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/liveupdate/linux: (36 commits)
liveupdate: Document that retrieve failure is permanent
docs: memfd_preservation: fix rendering of ABI documentation
selftests/liveupdate: Add stress-files kexec test
selftests/liveupdate: Add stress-sessions kexec test
selftests/liveupdate: Test session and file limit removal
liveupdate: Remove limit on the number of files per session
liveupdate: Remove limit on the number of sessions
liveupdate: defer session block allocation and physical address setting
kho: add support for linked-block serialization
liveupdate: Extract luo_session_deserialize_one helper
liveupdate: Extract luo_file_deserialize_one helper
liveupdate: register luo_ser as KHO subtree
liveupdate: centralize state management into struct luo_ser
liveupdate: avoid mixing cleanup guards with goto in luo_session_retrieve_fd
liveupdate: change file_set->count type to u64 for type safety
liveupdate: Remove unused ser field from struct luo_session
liveupdate: fix u-a-f in luo_file_unpreserve_files() and luo_file_finish()
liveupdate: block session mutations during reboot
liveupdate: fix TOCTOU race in luo_session_retrieve()
liveupdate: skip serialization for context-preserving kexec
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