From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
jbarnold@MIT.EDU, francois.cami@free.fr,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
mail@earthworm.de
Subject: Re: A system for rebootless kernel security updates
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:17:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080427101659.GD3891@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <481098A4.50107@wpkg.org>
On Thu 2008-04-24 16:26:44, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Jeff Arnold wrote:
>
> >I've put together an automatic system for applying
> >kernel security patches to the Linux kernel without
> >rebooting it, and I wanted to share this system with
> >the community in case others find it useful or
> >interesting.
>
> Hmm, the idea seem to be patented by Microsoft, i.e.
> this patent from December 2002:
>
> http://www.google.com/patents?id=cVyWAAAAEBAJ&dq=hotpatching
>
> (and other patents by Microsoft if you search for
> "hotpatching").
...so US will not be able to fix security holes without reboot, good.
Perhaps they fix their stupid laws after next worm outbreak...
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-27 10:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-24 14:26 Tomasz Chmielewski
2008-04-24 14:42 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-27 10:17 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2008-04-27 17:00 ` Gilles Espinasse
2008-04-27 17:49 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-04-27 19:51 ` Oliver Pinter
2008-04-27 19:58 ` Jesper Juhl
2008-04-28 19:07 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-04-29 23:39 ` Jeff Arnold
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-04-23 18:59 Jeff Arnold
2008-04-23 21:37 ` FD Cami
2008-04-24 13:42 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-28 6:18 ` Jeff Arnold
2008-04-28 10:29 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-29 6:55 ` Jeff Arnold
2008-04-29 12:57 ` Dan Noe
2008-04-29 22:43 ` Jeff Arnold
2008-05-01 11:38 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-05-01 13:35 ` David Collier-Brown
2008-04-24 13:43 ` Christian Hesse
2008-04-24 18:13 ` Jeff Arnold
2008-04-24 19:16 ` Christian Hesse
2008-04-28 6:11 ` Jeff Arnold
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