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| author | Seth Jennings | 2014-12-16 11:58:19 -0600 |
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| committer | Jiri Kosina | 2014-12-22 15:40:49 +0100 |
| commit | b700e7f03df5d92f85fa5247fe1f557528d3363d (patch) | |
| tree | d6da8186d1bd9c42bbd5db9f23deeb1e47bb6dec /kernel/livepatch/Kconfig | |
| parent | c5f4546593e9911800f0926c1090959b58bc5c93 (diff) | |
livepatch: kernel: add support for live patching
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.
[ jkosina@suse.cz: due to the number of contributions that got folded into
this original patch from Seth Jennings, add SUSE's copyright as well, as
discussed via e-mail ]
Signed-off-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/livepatch/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/livepatch/Kconfig | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/livepatch/Kconfig b/kernel/livepatch/Kconfig new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..96da00fbc120 --- /dev/null +++ b/kernel/livepatch/Kconfig @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +config ARCH_HAVE_LIVE_PATCHING + boolean + help + Arch supports kernel live patching + +config LIVE_PATCHING + boolean "Kernel Live Patching" + depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS + depends on MODULES + depends on SYSFS + depends on KALLSYMS_ALL + depends on ARCH_HAVE_LIVE_PATCHING + help + Say Y here if you want to support kernel live patching. + This option has no runtime impact until a kernel "patch" + module uses the interface provided by this option to register + a patch, causing calls to patched functions to be redirected + to new function code contained in the patch module. |