diff --git a/Makefile.rhelver b/Makefile.rhelver
index bfe8675..e505ac0 100644
--- a/Makefile.rhelver
+++ b/Makefile.rhelver
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ RHEL_MINOR = 2
 #
 # Use this spot to avoid future merge conflicts.
 # Do not trim this comment.
-RHEL_RELEASE = 172
+RHEL_RELEASE = 173
 
 #
 # ZSTREAM
diff --git a/kernel.spec b/kernel.spec
index af08835..ca603be 100755
--- a/kernel.spec
+++ b/kernel.spec
@@ -119,15 +119,15 @@ Summary: The Linux kernel
 # define buildid .local
 %define specversion 5.14.0
 %define patchversion 5.14
-%define pkgrelease 172
+%define pkgrelease 173
 %define kversion 5
-%define tarfile_release 5.14.0-172.el9
+%define tarfile_release 5.14.0-173.el9
 # This is needed to do merge window version magic
 %define patchlevel 14
 # This allows pkg_release to have configurable %%{?dist} tag
-%define specrelease 172%{?buildid}%{?dist}
+%define specrelease 173%{?buildid}%{?dist}
 # This defines the kabi tarball version
-%define kabiversion 5.14.0-172.el9
+%define kabiversion 5.14.0-173.el9
 
 #
 # End of genspec.sh variables
@@ -2255,7 +2255,7 @@ pushd tools/gpio/
 popd
 # build VM tools
 pushd tools/vm/
-%{tools_make} slabinfo page_owner_sort
+%{tools_make} CFLAGS="${RPM_OPT_FLAGS}" LDFLAGS="%{__global_ldflags}" slabinfo page_owner_sort
 popd
 %endif
 
@@ -3057,6 +3057,24 @@ fi
 #
 #
 %changelog
+* Thu Oct 06 2022 Frantisek Hrbata <fhrbata@redhat.com> [5.14.0-173.el9]
+- redhat: fix elf got hardening for vm tools (Frantisek Hrbata)
+- ipmi:ipmb: Fix refcount leak in ipmi_ipmb_probe (Tony Camuso) [2130241]
+- ipmi: remove unnecessary type castings (Tony Camuso) [2130241]
+- ipmi: Make two logs unique (Tony Camuso) [2130241]
+- ipmi:si: Convert pr_debug() to dev_dbg() (Tony Camuso) [2130241]
+- ipmi: Convert pr_debug() to dev_dbg() (Tony Camuso) [2130241]
+- ipmi: Fix pr_fmt to avoid compilation issues (Tony Camuso) [2130241]
+- ipmi: Add an intializer for ipmi_recv_msg struct (Tony Camuso) [2130241]
+- ipmi: Add an intializer for ipmi_smi_msg struct (Tony Camuso) [2130241]
+- ipmi:ssif: Check for NULL msg when handling events and messages (Tony Camuso) [2130241]
+- ipmi: use simple i2c probe function (Tony Camuso) [2130241]
+- ipmi: Add a sysfs count of total outstanding messages for an interface (Tony Camuso) [2130241]
+- ipmi: Add a sysfs interface to view the number of users (Tony Camuso) [2130241]
+- ipmi: Limit the number of message a user may have outstanding (Tony Camuso) [2130241]
+- ipmi: Add a limit on the number of users that may use IPMI (Tony Camuso) [2130241]
+- ipmi:ipmi_ipmb: Fix null-ptr-deref in ipmi_unregister_smi() (Tony Camuso) [2130241]
+
 * Mon Oct 03 2022 Frantisek Hrbata <fhrbata@redhat.com> [5.14.0-172.el9]
 - redhat/Makefile: Add DIST to git tags for RHEL (Prarit Bhargava)
 - Revert "Split partner modules into a sub-package" (Prarit Bhargava)
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index f87ac1d..8af5b02 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-SHA512 (linux-5.14.0-172.el9.tar.xz) = 1998ffe244300ca78eda357c29b725f28eb30be4fc173982a26805f87c65f26a0c626747f4aa0d835bc203d262ce12756399b1a48fb04c75727af2a9392d39ce
-SHA512 (kernel-abi-stablelists-5.14.0-172.el9.tar.bz2) = 020e8ca2b67e2e099e9f263dca1536cb2c333f1f4a4029a4399e5361bb8464b4ea76cd234c1b6e4fcf7ff9603a5cdb558a2a9be0505b8926518b0899c9444f5d
-SHA512 (kernel-kabi-dw-5.14.0-172.el9.tar.bz2) = 3aff600593afa35e89015dec9a1391df3f6126d9f2d1c5daa15db2745d053aec470dab2772559e73b07c21af77c0f43ec560529a2e65086d7d9c0ff7dddf4c5b
+SHA512 (linux-5.14.0-173.el9.tar.xz) = 97c2db15d90c95ac552a33ad9c5e1616cc0acf721b6cedb10159fd1179748586bac8396f10de1da9b9e4e7b48beaedf33fbbd538d5da73edfd210f0d015a2b67
+SHA512 (kernel-abi-stablelists-5.14.0-173.el9.tar.bz2) = 17f7d101c49d74065b1eb73a86523d330bb091604881c2ca2ad82d08a034ea657d502adc501e6bea25410a5feae5df1c7825b33f9add34dad75c94717d9b9f66
+SHA512 (kernel-kabi-dw-5.14.0-173.el9.tar.bz2) = 3aff600593afa35e89015dec9a1391df3f6126d9f2d1c5daa15db2745d053aec470dab2772559e73b07c21af77c0f43ec560529a2e65086d7d9c0ff7dddf4c5b