From b700e7f03df5d92f85fa5247fe1f557528d3363d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Seth Jennings Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 11:58:19 -0600 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Reviewed-by: Miroslav Benes Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- kernel/livepatch/Kconfig | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) create mode 100644 kernel/livepatch/Kconfig (limited to 'kernel/livepatch/Kconfig') 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. -- cgit