fidzu : distro

Google Summer of Code day 16

What was my plan for today?

• going on with the code for retriving the livepatch and installing it
• Ask infra for a server where to install elivepatch sever

What i did today?
Sended request for the server that will offer the elivepatch service as talked with my mentor. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=622476

Fixed some pep8 warnings.

Livepatch server is now returning information about the livepatch building status.

Removed basic auth as we will go with SSL.

The client is now sending information about the kernel version when requesting a new build.

The kernel directory under the server is now a livepatch class variable.

what i will do next time?

• going on with the code for retriving the livepatch and installing it

23 Jun 2017 11:12pm GMT

Google Summer of Code day 16

What was my plan for today?

• Divide call for sending (patch, config) and the call for build the livepatch
• Make the livepatch call more flexible (as now is hardcoded)
• Ask infra for a server where to install elivepatch sever

What i did today?

Added patch file path argument to the elivepatch server API and added patch call to elivepatch client.

Adding way for dividing the call for sending the configuration with a POST call sending the patch with a POST calland than start the livepatch build and getting the result.

patch sended work and working on calling livepatch.

Added docstring to the build patch function.

Cleaned GetLive dispatcher function.

Added call from client to build livepatch of the server API.

made send_file function more generic for send all kind of file.

what i will do next time?

• going on with the code for retriving the livepatch and installing it

23 Jun 2017 11:12pm GMT

Google Summer of Code day 15

What was my plan for today?
working on sending the configuration file on RESTful api,
and starting to work on making the patch.ko file in the server.

What i did today?
using wekzeug.datastructures.FileStorage in elivepatch_server,
I could receive the file from the elivepatch_client POST request
using the RESTful API.

def post(self):
    parse = reqparse.RequestParser()
    parse.add_argument('file', type=werkzeug.datastructures.FileStorage, location)

so as now we can get the kernel configuration file, extract if is .gz filename and send it to the elivepatch server.

elivepatch server need to read the configuration, compare it with the
current kernel configuration and if different recompile the kernel.
After we can start making the livepatch with kpatch-build.

This is the example of using kpatch-build:

kpatch-build/kpatch-build -s /usr/src/linux-4.9.16-gentoo/ -v /usr/src/linux-4.9.16-gentoo/vmlinux examples/test.patch --skip-gcc-check

gsoc-2017 kpatch (gentoo) # kpatch-build/kpatch-build --help
usage: kpatch-build [options] <patch file>
            -h, --help         Show this help message
            -r, --sourcerpm    Specify kernel source RPM
            -s, --sourcedir    Specify kernel source directory
            -c, --config       Specify kernel config file
            -v, --vmlinux      Specify original vmlinux
            -t, --target       Specify custom kernel build targets
            -d, --debug        Keep scratch files in /tmp
            --skip-cleanup     Skip post-build cleanup
            --skip-gcc-check   Skip gcc version matching check
                               (not recommended)

This command is called automatically by the elivepatch server after receiving the configuration file.

we need also to send the patch file.

what i will do next time?

• Divide call for sending (patch, config) and the call for build the livepatch
• Make the livepatch call more flexible (as now is hardcoded)
• Ask infra for a server where to install elivepatch sever

21 Jun 2017 5:57pm GMT