Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 01 May 2008 09:35:04 -0400 | From | David Collier-Brown <> | Subject | Re: A system for rebootless kernel security updates |
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Enrico Weigelt wrote: > I didn't have the time for an deeper study yet, but as you already > mentioned, there're lots of limitations which can make it harmful: > as soon as interfaces chance, you're in *big* trouble. There should > be a way for finding them (automatically). Maybe extract the > interface signatures (including structs!) so some appropriate place > next to the kernel, so they can be checked before (re)loading the > module.
Actually there is a mature discipline around data changes that dates back to before Unix v7, but it's off-topic for this discussion: it would make the changes too big (;-))
If anyone is interested, see http://multicians.org/stachour.html and/or send me mail
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