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