From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: 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: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:26:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <481098A4.50107@wpkg.org> (raw)
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").
And those patent descriptions, by the way, remind the way kexec works
("A software module is hotpatched by loading a patch into memory and
modifying an instruction in the original module to jump to the patch"),
which was released much earlier... In essence, they patented kexec ;)
--
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org
next reply other threads:[~2008-04-24 14:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-24 14:26 Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
2008-04-24 14:42 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-27 10:17 ` Pavel Machek
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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