On 1/13/22 12:28 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:> On 1/7/22 12:18, Gordon Messmer wrote:
>> On 1/7/22 09:39, Gionatan Danti wrote:
>>> is kernel live patching working for CentOS Stream 9?
>>
>>
>> https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2206511
>>
>> My understanding of live kernel patching is that the feature allows
>> systems to update specific individual kernel functions, and is
>> primarily useful for addressing security vulnerabilities (and not, for
>> example, for updating from one kernel version to another).? I don't
>> know for a fact, but my expectation is that CentOS Stream systems
>> aren't going to get "live" patches because there's no
ongoing support
>> for individual kernels.
>>
>
> Indeed .. you will get those things rolled into the next kernel, but not
> as live patches.
In layman's language summary: RedHat Enterprise features (including
"live" kernel patching) are to be expected _only_ in RedHat Enterprise
"binary replica" distributions, which CentOS Stream is not.
Valeri