kGraft/kPatch support in Ubuntu 15.10 or 16.04?

Andrew Martin amartin at xes-inc.com
Mon Aug 24 15:30:57 UTC 2015


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Martin" <amartin at xes-inc.com>
> To: ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
> Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 11:13:27 AM
> Subject: kGraft/kPatch support in Ubuntu 15.10 or 16.04?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I was very excited to see live kernel patching get accepted into the mainline
> kernel in 4.0. For server environments where uptime is crucial and rebooting
> servers to install kernel security fixes is very disruptive, the ability to
> live
> patch security fixes into the running kernel is a very desirable feature. Are
> there any plans to add support for the kGraft/kPatch support available in 4.x
> series kernels in Ubuntu Server 15.10 or 16.04? This would be a fantastic
> feature
> for the next LTS release!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew Martin

Is there really no information about kGraft or kPatch support in Ubuntu?




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