From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756919AbYD0KRX (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:17:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752732AbYD0KRQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:17:16 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:2067 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752404AbYD0KRP (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:17:15 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:17:00 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Tomasz Chmielewski Cc: LKML , jbarnold@MIT.EDU, francois.cami@free.fr, Andi Kleen , mail@earthworm.de Subject: Re: A system for rebootless kernel security updates Message-ID: <20080427101659.GD3891@ucw.cz> References: <481098A4.50107@wpkg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <481098A4.50107@wpkg.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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 -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html