[El-errata] ELBA-2011-1796 Oracle Linux 4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.9 kernel bug fix update

Fri Dec 9 15:03:04 PST 2011

Oracle Linux Bug Fix Advisory ELBA-2011-1796

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1796.html

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

i386:
kernel-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm
kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL.i686.rpm
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL.i686.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-smp-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL.x86_64.rpm

ia64:
kernel-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL.noarch.rpm
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL.ia64.rpm

SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el4/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.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-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.ELhugemem-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.ELxenU-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.ELhugemem-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.ELsmp-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.ELxenU-1.2.9-1.el4.i686.rpm

x86_64:
oracleasm-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.ELsmp-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.ELxenU-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.ELsmp-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.ELxenU-1.2.9-1.el4.x86_64.rpm

ia64:
oracleasm-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.ia64.rpm
oracleasm-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.ELlargesmp-2.0.5-1.el4.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.ia64.rpm
ocfs2-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.ELlargesmp-1.2.9-1.el4.ia64.rpm

SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/el4/SRPMS-updates/oracleasm-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/el4/SRPMS-updates/ocfs2-2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL-1.2.9-1.el4.src.rpm

Description of changes:

[2.6.9-103.0.0.0.1.EL]
- [net] 8139cp: fix oops on cp_get_ethtool_stats when nic down (Joe Jin) 
[orabug 10396632]
- [kernel] fix up Red Hat's replacement for Oracle patch
   linux-2.6-x86_64-7708133-fix-fp-corruption.patch (Chuck Anderson) 
[orabug 7708133]
- [XEN] fix cpu hotplug crash (Joe Jin) [orabug 7521308]
- [XEN] Bring up vcpus before khelper init (Joe Jin) [orabug 7521308]
- [XEN] flush the tlb cache immediately (Dave McCracken, Scott Shi) 
[orabug 9138767]
- 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]
- backout patch sysrq-b that queues upto keventd thread (Guru Anbalagane)
   [orabug 6125546]
- netrx/netpoll race avoidance (Tina Yang) [orabug 6143381]
- use lfence instead of cpuid instruction to implement memory barriers
   (Herbert van den Bergh) [orabug 7452412]
- add netpoll support to xen netfront (Tina Yang) [orabz 7261]
- [xen] execshield: fix endless GPF fault loop (Stephen Tweedie)
   [orabug 7175395]
- [xen]: port el5u2 patch that allows 64-bit PVHVM guest to boot with 32-bit
   dom0 [orabug 7452107] xenstore
- [mm] update shrink_zone patch to allow 100% swap utilization (John 
Sobecki,
   Chris Mason, Chuck Anderson, Dave McCracken) [orabug 7566319,6086839]
- [kernel] backport report_lost_ticks patch from EL5.2 (John Sobecki)
   [orabug 6110605]
- check to see if hypervisor supports memory reservation change (Chuck 
Anderson)  [orabug7556514]
- [XEN] use hypercall to fixmap pte updates (Mukesh Rathor) [orabug 8433329]
- fix oops in nlmclnt_mark_reclaim (Trond Myklebust) [orabug 8568878]
- [x86_64] Allowed machine_reboot running on boot_cpu (Joe Jin) [orabug 
8425237]
- FP register state is corrupted during the handling a SIGSEGV (Chuck 
Anderson)
   [orabug 7708133]
- [x86_64]: fix x86_64 largesmp kernel reboot hang (Joe Jin) [orabug 
bug9126592]
- [nfs]: fix file attribute caching (Chuck Lever, Herbert van den Bergh)
   [orabug 8449921]
- [mm] revert patch #2042 (John Sobecki) [orabug 8895251]
- [x86_64] Add compat32 support for readahead and fadvise64 (John Haxby)
   [orabug 9458826]
- [XEN] free pte on hugetlb_prefault to avoid the clear_page race
   (Dave McCracken, Joe Jin) [orabug 9493665]
- [XEN] Flush tlb cache immediately to avoid clear_page race (Dave 
McCracken,
   Joe Jin) [orabug 9488844]
- [aio] remove limit on number of retries (Srinivas Eeda) [orabug 10044782]

[2.6.9-103]
- bonding: stop interface flapping when no traffic is flowing (Andy 
Gospodarek) [735184]
- x86_64: flush TLB entry in fault handler (Laszlo Ersek) [654210]
- misc: Fix Legacy PTY range (Mauro Carvalho Chehab) [683117]

[2.6.9-102]
-bnx2: fix crash when the reset fails (Flavio Leitner) [721147]