Issue

With the kpatch under review for CVE-2026-46242 and workarounds in place to avoid https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/RHEL-194099 Ben noticed systemd instability without even running the CVE reproducer: [ 6773.356898] systemd-coredump[14244]: Stack trace of thread 688: [ 6773.357485] systemd-coredump[14244]: #0 0x00007f907f32d737 epoll_wait (libc.so.6 + 0x106737) [ 6773.358331] systemd-coredump[14244]: #1 0x00007f907f6b99ea sd_event_wait (libsystemd-shared-257-23.el10.so + 0x2b99ea) [ 6773.359386] systemd-coredump[14244]: #2 0x00007f907f6bb06b sd_event_run (libsystemd-shared-257-23.el10.so + 0x2bb06b) [ 6773.360430] systemd-coredump[14244]: #3 0x00005653642e4c20 main (/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journald + 0xac20) [ 6773.361404] systemd-coredump[14244]: #4 0x00007f907f25158e __libc_start_call_main (libc.so.6 + 0x2a58e) [ 6773.362336] systemd-coredump[14244]: #5 0x00007f907f251649 __libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.34 (libc.so.6 + 0x2a649) [ 6773.363325] systemd-coredump[14244]: #6 0x00005653642e5075 _start (/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journald + 0xb075) [1] https://gitlab.com/redhat/prdsc/rhel/src/kpatch/rhel-10/-/merge_requests/9

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Resolution

Done