Red Hat Waived Items¶
Waived Items is a mechanism offered by Red Hat which allows customers to “waive” and utilize features that are not enabled by default as these are considered as unmaintained, insecure, rudimentary, or deprecated, but are shipped with the RHEL kernel for customer’s convinience only. Waived Items can range from features that can be enabled on demand to specific security mitigations that can be disabled on demand.
To explicitly “waive” any of these items, RHEL offers the rh_waived
kernel boot parameter. To allow set of waived items, append
rh_waived=<item name>,...,<item name> to the kernel
cmdline.
Appending rh_waived=features will waive all features listed below,
and appending rh_waived=cves will waive all security mitigations
listed below.
The waived items listed in the next session follow the pattern below:
- item name
item description