[kpatch] kpatch with proprietary module

[Rahul Kumar]

Hi Josh,

Thanks for your reply.

My concern is around the legal issues only. The patch module that is
created by kpatch tools shows GPL license when I do a modinfo on it. And
due to some legacy restrictions I cannot ship the patch while it is having
a GPL license.
So I was wondering if there is any workaround to this problem!

Thanks and Regards,
Rahul.


On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 06:01:21PM +0530, Rahul Kumar wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I was able to successfully patch an "out of tree" GPL licensed kernel
> > object using kpatch tools.  Now, I have this "out of tree" legacy kernel
> > object with license type "proprietary". I want to patch this module using
> > kpatch. Is it possible to use kpatch on proprietary modules? If not, does
> > Red Hat have any plans that will allow us to use kpatch on proprietary
> > modules?
>
> Hi Rahul,
>
> I've never tried it, but AFAIK kpatch doesn't check the license of the
> code it's patching, so I don't know of any reason why it wouldn't work
> the same as patching any other out of tree module.
>
> --
> Josh
>
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