There seems to be an official statement by Red Hat now: https://access.redhat.com/articles/7132207
> we would need need to recover disk partitions/LVM metadata, boot records, etc. as well as all the data itself. While other suggested, image-based solutions better fit your bit-for-bit requirement, you might also be…
Red Hat's article on these issues also provides further explanations: https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/tcpsack
I think this is related to kpatch only being available as of RHEL 7.2 [1] in general. In other words, this must not necessarily be caused by any specifics of the current kernel patches. [1]…
There seems to be an official statement by Red Hat now: https://access.redhat.com/articles/7132207
> we would need need to recover disk partitions/LVM metadata, boot records, etc. as well as all the data itself. While other suggested, image-based solutions better fit your bit-for-bit requirement, you might also be…
Red Hat's article on these issues also provides further explanations: https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/tcpsack
I think this is related to kpatch only being available as of RHEL 7.2 [1] in general. In other words, this must not necessarily be caused by any specifics of the current kernel patches. [1]…