Bug 1728504

Summary: Update documentation to reflect pro-active kpatching
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Jaroslav Klech <jklech>
Component: DocumentationAssignee: Jaroslav Klech <jklech>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Yulia Kopkova <ykopkova>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact: Jaroslav Klech <jklech>
Priority: medium    
Version: 7.7CC: asavkov, bhu, jklech, joe.lawrence, jpoimboe, jwirch, lilu, linqing, lkuprova, mmilgram, pasik, rhandlin, rhel-docs, tcapek
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.Live patching for the kernel is now available Live patching for the kernel, `kpatch`, provides a mechanism to patch a running kernel without rebooting or restarting any processes. Live kernel patches will be provided for selected minor release streams of RHEL covered under the link:https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata#Extended_Update_Support[Extended Update Support (EUS)] policy to remediate Critical and Important CVEs. To subscribe to the `kpatch` stream for the RHEL 7.7 version of kernel, install the `kpatch-patch-3_10_0-1062` package provided by the link:https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2019:2011[RHEA-2019:2011] advisory. For more information, see link:https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html-single/kernel_administration_guide/index#applying_patches_with_kernel_live_patching[Applying patches with kernel live patching] in the Kernel Administration Guide. // Preview: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html-single/kernel_administration_guide/index?lb_target=preview#applying_patches_with_kernel_live_patching
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Description Jaroslav Klech 2019-07-10 05:51:15 UTC 
Document URL: 

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/kernel_administration_guide/chap-documentation-kernel_administration_guide-working_with_kpatch?lb_target=preview

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CHAPTER 6. WORKING WITH KPATCH


Describe the issue: 

Update the chapter 6 to reflect the pro-active kpatching

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Comment 25 Josh Poimboeuf 2019-09-04 13:25:31 UTC 
Looks good to me.