CONFIG_LIVEPATCH: Kernel Live Patching

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_LIVEPATCH:

• prompt: Kernel Live Patching
• type: bool
• depends on: ( CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS || CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS ) && ( CONFIG_MODULES ) && ( CONFIG_SYSFS ) && ( CONFIG_KALLSYMS_ALL ) && ( CONFIG_HAVE_LIVEPATCH ) && (! CONFIG_TRIM_UNUSED_KSYMS )
• defined in kernel/livepatch/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 4.0–4.20, 5.0–5.19, 6.0–6.12

Help text

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.

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