[Lpc-announce] Live Patching Microconference Accepted into 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference

[Jake Edge]

We are pleased to announce that the Live Patching Microconference has
been accepted into the 2019 Linux Plumbers Conference! There are some
workloads that require 100% uptime so rebooting for maintenance is not
an option. But this can make the system insecure as new security
vulnerabilities may have been discovered in the running kernel. Live
kernel patching is a technique to update the kernel without taking down
the machine. As one can imagine, patching a running kernel is far from
trivial. Although it is being used in production today[1][2], there are
still many issues that need to be solved.

These include:

- API for state changes made by callbacks [3][4]
- Source-based livepatch creation tooling [5][6] (klp-convert) [7][8]
- Livepatch developers guide
- Userspace live patching

Come and join us in the discussion about changing your running kernel
without having to take it down!

We hope to see you there!

LPC[10] will be held in Lisbon, Portugal from Monday, September 9
through Wednesday, September 11.

[1] https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles-15/book_sle_admin/data/cha_klp.html
[2] https://access.redhat.com/articles/2475321
[3] https://www.spinics.net/lists/live-patching/msg05063.html
[4] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190611135627.15556-1-pmladek@suse.com
[5] https://www.spinics.net/lists/live-patching/msg04617.html
[6] https://www.spinics.net/lists/live-patching/msg04647.html
[7] https://blog.linuxplumbersconf.org/2016/ocw/proposals/3519.html
[8] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190509143859.9050-1-joe.lawrence@redhat.com
[9] https://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/event/4/page/34-accepted-microconferences#iot
[10] https://linuxplumbersconf.org