[El-errata] ELSA-2012-1366 Important: Oracle Linux 6 kernel security and bug fix update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2012-1366

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1366.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 6 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

i386:
kernel-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-firmware-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.i686.rpm
perf-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.i686.rpm
python-perf-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.i686.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-firmware-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
perf-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.32-279.11.1.el6.src.rpm


Description of changes:

[2.6.32-279.11.1.el6]
- [net] core: Fix napi_gro_frags vs netpoll path (Amerigo Wang) [857854 
845347]
- [netdrv] benet: disable BH in callers of be_process_mcc() (Amerigo 
Wang) [857854 845347]
- [net] bonding: remove IFF_IN_NETPOLL flag (Amerigo Wang) [857854 845347]
- [mm] fix contig_page_data kABI breakage and related memory corruption 
(Satoru Moriya) [857012 853007]
- [net] sctp: backport sctp cache ipv6 source after route lookup 
(Michele Baldessari) [858284 855759]
- [net] sctp: backport support of sctp multi-homing ipv6 source address 
selection (Michele Baldessari) [858284 855759]
- [net] ipv6: backport RTA_PREFSRC ipv6 source route selection support 
(Michele Baldessari) [858285 851118]
- [netdrv] sfc: Fix maximum number of TSO segments and minimum TX queue 
size (Nikolay Aleksandrov) [845556 845557] {CVE-2012-3412}
- [s390] zfcp: No automatic port_rescan on events (Hendrik Brueckner) 
[856316 855131]
- [fs] xfs: push the AIL from memory reclaim and periodic sync (Dave 
Chinner) [856686 855139]

[2.6.32-279.10.1.el6]
- [mm] hugetlbfs: close race during teardown of hugetlbfs shared page 
tables (Rafael Aquini) [857334 856325]
- [mm] hugetlbfs: Correctly detect if page tables have just been shared 
(Rafael Aquini) [857334 856325]
- [kernel] sched: fix divide by zero at {thread_group,task}_times 
(Stanislaw Gruszka) [856703 843771]