[elrepo] kpatch or livepatch

[Danie de Jager]

I was looking at the article here and I was thinking I'd be able to use
this I'm just not sure how to do this for Elrepo kernels.

http://jensd.be/651/linux/linux-live-kernel-patching-with-kpatch-on-centos-7


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On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 at 14:22, Trevor Hemsley <themsley at voiceflex.com> wrote:

> On 14/02/2020 12:11, Danie de Jager via elrepo wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to setup live patching of the kernel. From my reading it seems that
> livepatch is used by the kernel and ubuntu and kpatch by Centos and Redhat.
>
> Would I still use kpatch to path the elrepo kernels on Centos 7 or would I
> need to use livepatch methods as I'm running elrepo kernels?
>
>
> In order for this to work you would first need to find or create the patch
> files. I do know that the CentOS distro kernels do not have any patch files
> available and nor are there any plans that I know of to do so. I would
> strongly suspect that the ELRepo kernels are in the same boat.
>
> At present, the only kpatch files that I know of are built by Red Hat for
> RHEL kernels.
>
> Trevor
>
>
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