Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:51:41 +0200 | From | "Oliver Pinter" <> | Subject | Re: A system for rebootless kernel security updates |
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and if i good know, the macos make too the kernel updates
On 4/27/08, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 12:17:00PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > 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... > > Sounds like a bullshit patent. I remember having loaded a lot of NLM > patches under netware 4.0 in 96-97 without ever rebooting. I think > that the patches only redefined the faulty symbol(s) they wanted to > patch. That was pretty convenient because when in doubt, you could > simply unload the modules and get back to previous situation. > > > Pavel > > Willy > > -- > 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/ >
-- Thanks, Oliver
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