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From: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
To: Donald Buczek <buczek@molgen.mpg.de>
Cc: Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>,
	oss-security@lists.openwall.com,
	 Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
	 ksummit@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: Re: [MAINTAINERS SUMMIT] Handling of embargoed security issues -- security@korg vs. linux-distros@
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 10:46:09 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.21.2308291043590.21665@pobox.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12aa367f-9934-7450-1016-fe303c72cc5a@molgen.mpg.de>

[ apologies for a slight off topic ]

Hi,

On Fri, 25 Aug 2023, Donald Buczek wrote:

> We go a long way to avoid rebooting. This might be as easy as disabling 
> unused dynamic modules by just removing the .ko files from userspace, 
> but sometimes we even convert an upstream fix into a loadable module 
> which uses ftrace to replace or wrap the buggy functions in the running 
> systems. A "reboot party" would only be a measure of last resort.

the kernel live patching infrastructure might help you with this. See 
Documentation/livepatch/ and samples/livepatch/ in the kernel tree.

Regards,
Miroslav

      reply	other threads:[~2023-08-29  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-15  9:28 Jiri Kosina
2023-08-15 10:17 ` Vegard Nossum
2023-08-15 10:34   ` Jiri Kosina
2023-08-15 11:23   ` Greg KH
2023-08-15 12:42     ` Steven Rostedt
2023-08-15 13:17       ` Daniel Borkmann
2023-08-15 14:19         ` Laurent Pinchart
2023-08-15 22:04         ` Jiri Kosina
2023-08-15 14:20       ` Catalin Marinas
2023-08-15 14:41         ` Greg KH
2023-08-15 15:04           ` Steven Rostedt
2023-08-15 15:51             ` Greg KH
2023-08-15 15:08       ` Greg KH
2023-08-15 18:46         ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2023-08-15 19:41           ` Greg KH
2023-08-15 22:13         ` Jiri Kosina
2023-08-15 22:31           ` Steven Rostedt
2023-08-16 14:55             ` Greg KH
2024-02-16 17:14               ` Michal Suchánek
2024-02-16 17:34                 ` Greg KH
2024-02-16 18:13                   ` Michal Suchánek
2024-02-16 18:16                     ` Jiri Kosina
2023-08-15 22:17         ` Jiri Kosina
2023-08-16 14:57           ` Greg KH
2023-08-16 17:22             ` Jiri Kosina
2023-08-16 18:38           ` Vegard Nossum
2023-08-16 15:26   ` Solar Designer
2023-08-25 11:17     ` Donald Buczek
2023-08-29  8:46       ` Miroslav Benes [this message]

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