Oracle5: ELSA-2012-1445-1: kernel Low Security Update
Summary
[2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5] - [kernel] Initialize the local uninitialized variable stats. [orabug 14051367] - [fs] JBD:make jbd support 512B blocks correctly for ocfs2. [orabug 13477763] - [x86 ] fix fpu context corrupt when preempt in signal context [orabug 14038272] - [net] bonding: fix carrier detect when bond is down [orabug 12377284] - [mm] fix hugetlb page leak (Dave McCracken) [orabug 12375075] - fix ia64 build error due to add-support-above-32-vcpus.patch(Zhenzhong Duan) - [x86] use dynamic vcpu_info remap to support more than 32 vcpus (Zhenzhong Duan) - [x86] Fix lvt0 reset when hvm boot up with noapic param - [scsi] remove printk's when doing I/O to a dead device (John Sobecki, Chris Mason) [orabug 12342275] - [char] ipmi: Fix IPMI errors due to timing problems (Joe Jin) [orabug 12561346] - [scsi] Fix race when removing SCSI devices (Joe Jin) [orabug 12404566] - [net] net: Redo the broken redhat netconsole over bonding (Tina Yang) [orabug 12740042] - [fs] nfs: Fix __put_nfs_open_context() NULL pointer panic (Joe Jin) [orabug 12687646] - [scsi] fix scsi hotplug and rescan race [orabug 10260172] - fix filp_close() race (Joe Jin) [orabug 10335998] - make xenkbd.abs_pointer=1 by default [orabug 67188919] - [xen] check to see if hypervisor supports memory reservation change (Chuck Anderson) [orabug 7556514] - [net] Enable entropy for bnx2,bnx2x,e1000e,igb,ixgb,ixgbe,ixgbevf (John Sobecki) [orabug 10315433] - [NET] Add xen pv netconsole support (Tina Yang) [orabug 6993043] [bz 7258] - [mm] Patch shrink_zone to yield during severe mempressure events, avoiding hangs and evictions (John Sobecki,Chris Mason) [orabug 6086839] - [mm] Enhance shrink_zone patch allow full swap utilization, and also be NUMA-aware (John Sobecki,Chris Mason,Herbert van den Bergh) [orabug 9245919] - fix aacraid not to reset during kexec (Joe Jin) [orabug 8516042] - [rds] Patch rds to 1.4.2-20 (Andy Grover) [orabug 9471572, 9344105] RDS: Fix BUG_ONs to not fire when in a tasklet ipoib: Fix lockup of the tx queue RDS: Do not call set_page_dirty() with irqs off (Sherman Pun) RDS: Properly unmap when getting a remote access error (Tina Yang) RDS: Fix locking in rds_send_drop_to() - [xen] PVHVM guest with PoD crashes under memory pressure (Chuck Anderson) [orabug 9107465] - [xen] PV guest with FC HBA hangs during shutdown (Chuck Anderson) [orabug 9764220] - Support 256GB+ memory for pv guest (Mukesh Rathor) [orabug 9450615] - fix overcommit memory to use percpu_counter for el5 (KOSAKI Motohiro, Guru Anbalagane) [orabug 6124033] - [ipmi] make configurable timeouts for kcs of ipmi [orabug 9752208] - [ib] fix memory corruption (Andy Grover) [orabug 9972346] [2.6.18-308.20.1.el5] - Revert: [x86] mm: randomize SHLIB_BASE (Dave Anderson) [804953 804954] {CVE-2012-1568} [2.6.18-308.19.1.el5] - [net] be2net: Remove code that stops further access to BE NIC based on UE bits (Alexander Gordeev) [867896 862811] - [net] netpoll: fix an incorrect check for NULL pointer (Alexander Gordeev) [856079 848098] - [net] mlx4: Add support for EEH error recovery (Alexander Gordeev) [847404 798048] - [fs] ext4: fix undefined bit shift result in ext4_fill_flex_info (Eric Sandeen) [809688 809689] {CVE-2012-2100} - [fs] ext4: fix undefined behavior in ext4_fill_flex_info (Eric Sandeen) [809688 809689] {CVE-2012-2100} - [fs] fix crash if block {device|size} read & changed at sametime (Mikulas Patocka) [864823 756506] - [x86] mm: randomize SHLIB_BASE (Dave Anderson) [804953 804954] {CVE-2012-1568} - [net] ipv6: Fix fib6_dump_table walker leak (Jiri Benc) [861387 819830] - [fs] cifs: update cifs_dfs_d_automount caller path (Sachin Prabhu) [858774 857448] - [xen] x86: change the default behaviour of CVE-2012-2934 fix (Petr Matousek) [859946 858724] - [net] ipvs: allow transmit of GRO aggregated skbs (Jesper Brouer) [857966 854067] - [scsi] isci: fixup linkspeed definitions (David Milburn) [854986 833000] - [fs] nfs: nfs_d_automount update caller path after do_add_mount (Carlos Maiolino) [857552 834379] - [fs] vfs: Fix vfsmount overput on simultaneous automount (Carlos Maiolino) [857552 834379] [2.6.18-308.18.1.el5] - [fs] autofs4: Merge the remaining dentry ops tables (Ian Kent) [857558 850977] [2.6.18-308.17.1.el5] - [fs] cifs: Invalidate file cache in case of posix open (Sachin Prabhu) [857964 852526]
SRPMs
https://oss.oracle.com:443/ol5/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.src.rpm The following packages were rebuilt to be in sync with the updated kernel version (no changes other than updating the version number): SRPMS: https://oss.oracle.com:443/el5/SRPMS-updates/oracleasm-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.src.rpm https://oss.oracle.com:443/el5/SRPMS-updates/ocfs2-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5-1.4.10-1.el5.src.rpm
x86_64
kernel-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm ia64: kernel-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.ia64.rpm x86_64: oracleasm-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.x86_64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5-1.4.10-1.el5.x86_64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5xen-1.4.10-1.el5.x86_64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5debug-1.4.10-1.el5.x86_64.rpm ia64: oracleasm-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.ia64.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.ia64.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.ia64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5-1.4.10-1.el5.ia64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5xen-1.4.10-1.el5.ia64.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5debug-1.4.10-1.el5.ia64.rpm
aarch64
i386
kernel-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-PAE-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debug-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-debug-devel-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.noarch.rpm kernel-headers-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.i386.rpm kernel-xen-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm kernel-xen-devel-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5.i686.rpm i386: oracleasm-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5PAE-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5xen-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm oracleasm-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5debug-2.0.5-1.el5.i686.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5-1.4.10-1.el5.i686.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5PAE-1.4.10-1.el5.i686.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5xen-1.4.10-1.el5.i686.rpm ocfs2-2.6.18-308.20.1.0.1.el5debug-1.4.10-1.el5.i686.rpm