RHEA-2023:0405 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

A new kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_83_1 package 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.

This enhancement update adds the kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1160_83_1 package to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. This is an empty kpatch-patch package, which does not contain any real patches. It is only a method to subscribe to the kpatch stream for kernel-3.10.0-1160.83.1.el7. Future updates to this package will contain kernel live patches. (BZ#2159730)

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

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 for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)