[El-errata] ELBA-2008-0859 Enterprise Linux 4 kernel bug fix update

Errata Announcements for Enterprise Linux el-errata at oss.oracle.com
Thu Oct 9 10:50:06 PDT 2008


Enterprise Linux Bug Fix Advisory ELBA-2008-0859

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0859.html

The following updated rpms for Enterprise Linux 4 have been uploaded to 
the Unbreakable Linux Network:

i386:
kernel-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm
kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL.i686.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm

ia64:
kernel-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el4/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL.src.rpm

The following packages were rebuilt to be in sync with the updated 
kernel version (no changes other than updating the version number):

i386:
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL-2.0.3-2.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.ELhugemem-2.0.3-2.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.3-2.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.ELxenU-2.0.3-2.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.ELhugemem-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.ELsmp-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.ELxenU-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm

x86_64:
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL-2.0.3-2.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.3-2.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.3-2.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.ELxenU-2.0.3-2.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.ELsmp-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.ELxenU-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm

ia64:
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL-2.0.3-2.ia64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.3-2.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.9-1.el4.ia64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el4/SRPMS-updates/oracleasm-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL-2.0.3-2.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/el4/SRPMS-updates/ocfs2-2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.src.rpm

Description of changes:

[2.6.9-78.0.5.0.1.EL]
- fix entropy flag in bnx2 driver to generate entropy pool (John 
Sobecki)  [orabug 5931647]
- fix skb alignment that was causing sendto() to fail with EFAULT (Olaf 
Kirch) [orabug 6845794]
- fix  enomem due to larger mtu size page alloc (Zach Brown) [orabug 
5486128]
- fix per_cpu() api bug_on with rds (Zach Brown) [orabug 5760648]
- backout patch sysrq-b that queues upto keventd thread (Guru 
Anbalagane)  [orabug 6125546]
- netrx/netpoll race avoidance (Tina Yang) [orabug 6143381]
- fix guest spinning in xen (Herbert van den Bergh) [orabug 7004010]
- fix serial port lock recursion (Herbert van den Bergh) [orabug 6761872]
- [XEN] Fix elf_core_dump (Tina Yang) [orabug 6995928]

[2.6.9-78.0.5]
-Revert: fix cpuspeed not working on intel based servers (Tony Camuso) 
[458156 440267]

[2.6.9-78.0.4]
-dm-raid: reduce io delay in dm-raid1 (Mikulas Patocka) [457229 451088]
-alsa: fix boundary variable calc for 32 bit user space running on 64 
bit kernels (Jaroslav Kysela) [461896 459824]
-x86_64: initialize vendor info in boot_cpu_data (Michal Schmidt) 
[458782 453470]
-fix stack overflow at ia32 as4 (Anton Arapov) [460637 448914]
-Revert fix regression in cpuspeed (Prarit Bhargava) [458156 440267]

[2.6.9-78.0.3]
-fix regression in cpuspeed (Prarit Bhargava) [458156 440267]

[2.6.9-78.0.2]
-fix cpuspeed not working on intel based servers (Tony Camuso) [458156 
440267]
-sunrpc: prevent memory corruption from successful portmap call with 
dead parent task (Jeff Layton) [457231 448076]





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