Live Kernel Patches
Live Kernel Patches
Posted Nov 16, 2018 8:57 UTC (Fri) by matthias (subscriber, #94967)Parent article: Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline
> This design will clearly not eliminate the out-of-tree code problem, since those modules will, in many or most cases, not come from the mainline. But there is still a significant change here: vendor-specific code will be relegated to loadable modules and, thus, be unable to change the core kernel.
I think live kernel patches are more or less loaded as modules. Furthermore, they can change the core kernel. I would not really be surprised if device manufactures would abuse this functionality. Let us just hope that this will not happen.