[CentOS] kpatch (live kernel patching) in CentOS 7.7?

On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 1:42 PM Jim Perrin <jperrin at centos.org> wrote:

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>
> On 10/3/19 1:32 PM, Phelps, Matthew wrote:
> > Forgive me if this has been answered before and I've missed it.
> >
> > This https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2206511 says live kernel
> patches
> > will be available via yum updates as of RHEL 7.7. Is this carried over to
> > CentOS 7.7.1908?
> >
>
> The functionality should be available, but we don't provide patches in
> this way, no.
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What would it take to make this happen? This would be a huge help to those
of us running servers. Not to mention it would make the world a more secure
place :)

Is it an upstream issue? No SRPMS available? Etc?

Just trying to understand. I don't follow the centos-devel list. Has this
been discussed there, or elsewhere?

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*Matt Phelps*

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