Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752108AbaLQOJF (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:09:05 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:47326 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751227AbaLQOJD (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Dec 2014 09:09:03 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 15:09:01 +0100 (CET) From: Miroslav Benes To: Seth Jennings cc: Josh Poimboeuf , Jiri Kosina , Vojtech Pavlik , Steven Rostedt , Petr Mladek , Christoph Hellwig , Greg KH , Andy Lutomirski , Masami Hiramatsu , live-patching@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, kpatch@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCHv7 2/3] kernel: add support for live patching In-Reply-To: <1418752700-14649-3-git-send-email-sjenning@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <1418752700-14649-1-git-send-email-sjenning@redhat.com> <1418752700-14649-3-git-send-email-sjenning@redhat.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, Seth Jennings wrote: > This commit introduces code for the live patching core. It implements > an ftrace-based mechanism and kernel interface for doing live patching > of kernel and kernel module functions. > > It represents the greatest common functionality set between kpatch and > kgraft and can accept patches built using either method. > > This first version does not implement any consistency mechanism that > ensures that old and new code do not run together. In practice, ~90% of > CVEs are safe to apply in this way, since they simply add a conditional > check. However, any function change that can not execute safely with > the old version of the function can _not_ be safely applied in this > version. > > Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings > Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf No problem there for me. So, for my patches you have Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes and for the rest Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes Thanks. Great work! -- Miroslav Benes SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/