linux-kernel - Re: A system for rebootless kernel security updates

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Message-Id: <200804241543.06874.mail@earthworm.de>
Date:	Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:43:05 +0200
From:	Christian Hesse <mail@...thworm.de>
To:	Jeff Arnold <jbarnold@....edu>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: A system for rebootless kernel security updates

On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Jeff Arnold wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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.

This sounds really interesting. I just wanted to test on my Gentoo system with 
kernel 2.6.25. The tarball creation works, but applying the change brings an 
error to syslog:

ksplice_242e9pfc_helper: Unknown symbol init_mm

Any chance to get a fix for that?
-- 
Regards,
Chris
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