Live patching Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa Linux kernel with Kpatch | Linux Today

Live patching Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa Linux kernel with Kpatch

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Aleksandra Mitroshkina
Jun 24, 2020

This tutorial will show how to use Kpatch to change the behavior of a running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Focal Fossa kernel without stopping it, changing the contents of /proc/uptime (and the uptime command) so that the system’s reported uptime is 10 years greater.

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Aleksandra Mitroshkina

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