[El-errata] ELSA-2015-0087 Important: Oracle Linux 6 kernel security and bug fix update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2015-0087

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0087.html

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

i386:
kernel-2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-abi-whitelists-2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-firmware-2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.i686.rpm
perf-2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.i686.rpm
python-perf-2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.i686.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-abi-whitelists-2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-firmware-2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
perf-2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.6.32-504.8.1.el6]
- [crypto] crc32c: Kill pointless CRYPTO_CRC32C_X86_64 option (Jarod 
Wilson) [1175509 1036212]
- [crypto] testmgr: add larger crc32c test vector to test FPU path in 
crc32c_intel (Jarod Wilson) [1175509 1036212]
- [crypto] tcrypt: Added speed test in tcrypt for crc32c (Jarod Wilson) 
[1175509 1036212]
- [crypto] crc32c: Optimize CRC32C calculation with PCLMULQDQ 
instruction (Jarod Wilson) [1175509 1036212]
- [crypto] crc32c: Rename crc32c-intel.c to crc32c-intel_glue.c (Jarod 
Wilson) [1175509 1036212]

[2.6.32-504.7.1.el6]
- [kernel] ipc/sem: Fully initialize sem_array before making it visible 
(Rik van Riel) [1172029 1165277]
- [kernel] ipc/sem: synchronize semop and semctl with IPC_RMID (Rik van 
Riel) [1172029 1165277]
- [kernel] ipc/sem: update sem_otime for all operations (Larry Woodman) 
[1172025 1168588]
- [fs] fuse: prevent null nd panic on dentry revalidate (Brian Foster) 
[1172022 1162782]
- [net] netfilter: ipset: timeout values corrupted on set resize 
(Marcelo Leitner) [1172764 1152754]
- [net] netfilter: fix xt_TCPOPTSTRIP in forwarding path (Marcelo 
Leitner) [1172027 1135650]
- [usb] ehci: Fix panic on hotplug race condition (Don Zickus) [1172024 
1107010]
- [usb] usb_wwan: replace release and disconnect with a port_remove hook 
(Stanislaw Gruszka) [1172030 1148615]
- [x86] traps: stop using IST for #SS (Petr  Matousek) [1172810 1172811] 
{CVE-2014-9322}

[2.6.32-504.6.1.el6]
- [fs] ext4: don't count external journal blocks as overhead (Eric 
Sandeen) [1168504 1163811]
- [net] sctp: fix NULL pointer dereference in af->from_addr_param on 
malformed packet (Daniel Borkmann) [1163090 1153980] {CVE-2014-7841}
- [netdrv] e100: fix typo in MDI/MDI-X eeprom check in e100_phy_init 
(John Greene) [1165985 1156417]
- [powerpc] Add smp_mb()s to arch_spin_unlock_wait() (Gustavo Duarte) 
[1165986 1136224]
- [powerpc] Add smp_mb() to arch_spin_is_locked() (Gustavo Duarte) 
[1165986 1136224]
- [kernel] cpuset: PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB should be atomic 
flags (Aaron Tomlin) [1165002 1045310]
- [documentation] cpuset: Update the cpuset flag file (Aaron Tomlin) 
[1165002 1045310]
- [alsa] control: Make sure that id->index does not overflow (Jacob 
Tanenbaum) [1149140 1117312] {CVE-2014-4656}
- [alsa] control: Handle numid overflow (Jacob Tanenbaum) [1149140 
1117312] {CVE-2014-4656}
- [s390] mm: fix SIGBUS handling (Hendrik Brueckner) [1169433 1145070]
- [fs] gfs2: fix bad inode i_goal values during block allocation 
(Abhijith Das) [1165001 1130684]
- [md] dm-thin: fix pool_io_hints to avoid looking at max_hw_sectors 
(Mike Snitzer) [1161420 1161421 1142773 1145230]

[2.6.32-504.5.1.el6]
- [fs] nfsd: don't halt scanning the DRC LRU list when there's an 
RC_INPROG entry (J. Bruce Fields) [1168129 1150675]

[2.6.32-504.4.1.el6]
- [fs] nfs: Make sure pre_change_attr is initialized correctly (Scott 
Mayhew) [1163214 1160042]
- [usb] ehci: Fix a regression in the ISO scheduler (Gustavo Duarte) 
[1162072 1145805]