Linux live patching in Debian

Speaker: Santiago Ruano Rincón

Type: 40min talk

Room: MDC room

Time: Nov 16 (Sat): 14:45

Duration: 0:40

Emmanuel and Santiago filed ITP #1070494 in May 2024 about adding live patching support for linux in Debian. More that an ITP, our project is an Intend to Design, Implement and Maintain livepatching for the kernel.

The goal of this talk is to present our current plans, including the design of a first approach, and all the questions and concerns that come with this project. Questions include but are not limited to how to triage the security issues, how to maintain the patches, how to match the kernel image Debian lifecycle and how to distribute the patches. The presentation includes a live demo of a simple livepatch.

The work-in-progress prototyping can be found in the Salsa linux-livepatching repo.

This talk would be the opportunity to discuss live what would be the best way to support linux livepatching in Debian.

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