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Bug 1958250

Summary: 6-month lookback for kpatch
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Jaroslav Klech <jklech>
Component: doc-Release_Notes-8-en-USAssignee: Lucie Vařáková <lmanasko>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: RHEL DPM <rhel-docs>
Severity: medium Docs Contact: Jana Heves <jsvarova>
Priority: medium    
Version: 8.5CC: dbohanno, denli, joe.lawrence, jsvarova, lkuprova, rhandlin, rhel-docs, ykopkova, zhijwang
Target Milestone: betaKeywords: Documentation, Triaged
Target Release: 8.5Flags: pm-rhel: mirror+
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Deprecated Functionality
Doc Text:
.Kernel live patching now covers all RHEL minor releases Since RHEL 8.1, kernel live patches have been provided for selected minor release streams of RHEL covered under the Extended Update Support (EUS) policy to remediate Critical and Important Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs). To accommodate the maximum number of concurrently covered kernels and use cases, the support window for each live patch has been decreased from 12 to 6 months for every minor, major, and zStream version of the kernel. It means that on the day a kernel live patch is released, it will cover every minor release and scheduled errata kernel delivered in the past 6 months. For more information about this feature, see link:https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/managing_monitoring_and_updating_the_kernel/applying-patches-with-kernel-live-patching_managing-monitoring-and-updating-the-kernel[Applying patches with kernel live patching]. For details about available kernel live patches, see link:https://access.redhat.com/articles/4499631[Kernel Live Patch life cycles].
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Last Closed: 2021-12-09 13:22:24 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Jaroslav Klech 2021-05-07 14:04:07 UTC 
Change in kernel live patch lookback needs to be documented in RHEL kernel release notes.
Comment 22 Red Hat Bugzilla 2023-09-18 00:26:32 UTC 
The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 120 days