[El-errata] ELBA-2013-2580 Oracle Linux 6 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel bug fix update

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Thu Nov 14 09:26:27 PST 2013


Oracle Linux Bug Fix Advisory ELBA-2013-2580

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

x86_64:
kernel-uek-firmware-3.8.13-16.2.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-3.8.13-16.2.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-3.8.13-16.2.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-3.8.13-16.2.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-3.8.13-16.2.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-3.8.13-16.2.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
dtrace-modules-3.8.13-16.2.1.el6uek-0.4.1-3.el6.x86_64.rpm
dtrace-modules-3.8.13-16.2.1.el6uek-headers-0.4.1-3.el6.x86_64.rpm
dtrace-modules-3.8.13-16.2.1.el6uek-provider-headers-0.4.1-3.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-headers-3.8.13-16.2.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-3.8.13-16.2.1.el6uek.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/dtrace-modules-3.8.13-16.2.1.el6uek-0.4.1-3.el6.src.rpm



Description of changes:

kernel-uek:
[3.8.13-16.2.1.el6uek]
- xen-netfront: convert to GRO API (Wei Liu) [Orabug: 17759432]
- xen-netfront: pull on receive skb may need to happen earlier (Jan 
Beulich) [Orabug: 17759399]
- be2net: pass if_id for v1 and V2 versions of TX_CREATE cmd (asundhara 
Volam) [Orabug: 17583192]
- core/xen: Use _PAGE_IOMAP when mmaping PCI BARs. (Konrad Rzeszutek 
Wilk) [Orabug: 17753790]
- dtrace: remove functionality of dtrace_os_exit() as deprecated (Kris 
Van Hees) [Orabug: 17717401]
- dtrace: fix mutex_owned() implementation (Kris Van Hees) [Orabug: 
17624236]
- dtrace: new cyclic implementation (Kris Van Hees) [Orabug: 17553446]
- dtrace: Use tasklet_hrtimer_*() instead of hrtimer_*() for cyclics 
(Kris Van Hees) [Orabug: 17553446]
- dm mpath: disable WRITE SAME if it fails (Mike Snitzer) [Orabug: 
17617256]
- crypto: xor - Check for osxsave as well as avx in crypto/xor (John 
Haxby) [Orabug: 17066724]
- bonding: If IP route look-up to send an ARP fails, mark in bonding 
structure as no ARP sent. (Rama Nichanamatlu) [Orabug: 17557056]
- Audit: do not print error when LSMs disabled (Eric Paris) [Orabug: 
17537769]

dtrace-modules-3.8.13-16.2.1.el6uek:
[0.4.1-3]
- Fix 'errno' implementation.
   [Orabug: 17704568]

[0.4.1-2]
- Fix lock ordering issues.
   [Orabug: 17624236]

[0.4.1-1]
- Align with new cyclic implementation in UEK3 kernel.
   [Orabug: 17553446]
- Bugfix for module reference counting.
- Fix memory leak.
- Fix race condition in speculative tracing buffer cleaning.
   [Orabug: 17591351]
- Ensure safe access to userspace stack memory location.
   [Orabug: 17591351]




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