Red Hat Product Errata RHEA-2018:3269 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Issued:
2018-10-30
Updated:
2018-10-30

RHEA-2018:3269 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Synopsis

kpatch bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory

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Topic

An update for kpatch is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The kpatch management tool provides a kernel patching infrastructure which allows you to patch a running kernel without rebooting or restarting any processes. The kpatch tool works at the function level for replacing old functions with new functions using hot patch modules.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Users of kpatch are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 7 aarch64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z (Structure A) 7 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7

SRPM
kpatch-0.6.1-1.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: bbd1e62fd217263dc4850533a2a8c640404006dd5ea160e50e484937a4eae328
x86_64
kpatch-0.6.1-1.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 052270b2de4f9d4a29b61cc6d0fe7e6bcd564506b62f947c04d0a35c7c92e058

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7

SRPM
kpatch-0.6.1-1.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: bbd1e62fd217263dc4850533a2a8c640404006dd5ea160e50e484937a4eae328
x86_64
kpatch-0.6.1-1.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 052270b2de4f9d4a29b61cc6d0fe7e6bcd564506b62f947c04d0a35c7c92e058

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7

SRPM
kpatch-0.6.1-1.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: bbd1e62fd217263dc4850533a2a8c640404006dd5ea160e50e484937a4eae328
x86_64
kpatch-0.6.1-1.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 052270b2de4f9d4a29b61cc6d0fe7e6bcd564506b62f947c04d0a35c7c92e058

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7

SRPM
kpatch-0.6.1-1.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: bbd1e62fd217263dc4850533a2a8c640404006dd5ea160e50e484937a4eae328
x86_64
kpatch-0.6.1-1.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 052270b2de4f9d4a29b61cc6d0fe7e6bcd564506b62f947c04d0a35c7c92e058

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7

SRPM
kpatch-0.6.1-1.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: bbd1e62fd217263dc4850533a2a8c640404006dd5ea160e50e484937a4eae328
s390x
kpatch-0.6.1-1.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 052270b2de4f9d4a29b61cc6d0fe7e6bcd564506b62f947c04d0a35c7c92e058

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7

SRPM
kpatch-0.6.1-1.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: bbd1e62fd217263dc4850533a2a8c640404006dd5ea160e50e484937a4eae328
ppc64
kpatch-0.6.1-1.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 052270b2de4f9d4a29b61cc6d0fe7e6bcd564506b62f947c04d0a35c7c92e058

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7

SRPM
kpatch-0.6.1-1.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: bbd1e62fd217263dc4850533a2a8c640404006dd5ea160e50e484937a4eae328
x86_64
kpatch-0.6.1-1.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 052270b2de4f9d4a29b61cc6d0fe7e6bcd564506b62f947c04d0a35c7c92e058

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7

SRPM
kpatch-0.6.1-1.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: bbd1e62fd217263dc4850533a2a8c640404006dd5ea160e50e484937a4eae328
ppc64le
kpatch-0.6.1-1.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 052270b2de4f9d4a29b61cc6d0fe7e6bcd564506b62f947c04d0a35c7c92e058

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7

SRPM
kpatch-0.6.1-1.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: bbd1e62fd217263dc4850533a2a8c640404006dd5ea160e50e484937a4eae328
s390x
kpatch-0.6.1-1.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 052270b2de4f9d4a29b61cc6d0fe7e6bcd564506b62f947c04d0a35c7c92e058

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 7

SRPM
kpatch-0.6.1-1.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: bbd1e62fd217263dc4850533a2a8c640404006dd5ea160e50e484937a4eae328
aarch64
kpatch-0.6.1-1.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 052270b2de4f9d4a29b61cc6d0fe7e6bcd564506b62f947c04d0a35c7c92e058

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7

SRPM
kpatch-0.6.1-1.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: bbd1e62fd217263dc4850533a2a8c640404006dd5ea160e50e484937a4eae328
ppc64le
kpatch-0.6.1-1.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 052270b2de4f9d4a29b61cc6d0fe7e6bcd564506b62f947c04d0a35c7c92e058

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z (Structure A) 7

SRPM
kpatch-0.6.1-1.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: bbd1e62fd217263dc4850533a2a8c640404006dd5ea160e50e484937a4eae328
s390x
kpatch-0.6.1-1.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 052270b2de4f9d4a29b61cc6d0fe7e6bcd564506b62f947c04d0a35c7c92e058

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7

SRPM
kpatch-0.6.1-1.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: bbd1e62fd217263dc4850533a2a8c640404006dd5ea160e50e484937a4eae328
ppc64
kpatch-0.6.1-1.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 052270b2de4f9d4a29b61cc6d0fe7e6bcd564506b62f947c04d0a35c7c92e058

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7

SRPM
kpatch-0.6.1-1.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: bbd1e62fd217263dc4850533a2a8c640404006dd5ea160e50e484937a4eae328
ppc64le
kpatch-0.6.1-1.el7.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 052270b2de4f9d4a29b61cc6d0fe7e6bcd564506b62f947c04d0a35c7c92e058

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