[El-errata] ELSA-2015-3004 Important: Oracle Linux 6 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security and bugfix update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2015-3004

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

i386:
kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.246.2.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-2.6.39-400.246.2.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-2.6.39-400.246.2.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-2.6.39-400.246.2.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-2.6.39-400.246.2.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.39-400.246.2.el6uek.noarch.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.39-400.246.2.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-2.6.39-400.246.2.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.246.2.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-2.6.39-400.246.2.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-2.6.39-400.246.2.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-2.6.39-400.246.2.el6uek.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.246.2.el6uek.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.6.39-400.246.2.el6uek]
- net: sctp: fix NULL pointer dereference in af->from_addr_param on 
malformed packet (Daniel Borkmann)  [Orabug: 20425333]  {CVE-2014-7841}

[2.6.39-400.246.1.el6uek]
- sched: Fix possible divide by zero in avg_atom() calculation (Mateusz 
Guzik)  [Orabug: 20148169]
- include/linux/math64.h: add div64_ul() (Alex Shi)
- deadlock when two nodes are converting same lock from PR to EX and 
idletimeout closes conn (Tariq Saeed)  [Orabug: 18639535]
- bonding: Bond master should reflect slave's features. (Ashish Samant) 
  [Orabug: 20231825]
- x86, fpu: remove the logic of non-eager fpu mem allocation at the 
first usage (Annie Li)  [Orabug: 20239143]
- x86, fpu: remove cpu_has_xmm check in the fx_finit() (Suresh Siddha) 
[Orabug: 20239143]
- x86, fpu: make eagerfpu= boot param tri-state (Suresh Siddha) 
[Orabug: 20239143]
- x86, fpu: enable eagerfpu by default for xsaveopt (Suresh Siddha) 
[Orabug: 20239143]
- x86, fpu: decouple non-lazy/eager fpu restore from xsave (Suresh 
Siddha)  [Orabug: 20239143]
- x86, fpu: use non-lazy fpu restore for processors supporting xsave 
(Suresh Siddha)  [Orabug: 20239143]
- lguest, x86: handle guest TS bit for lazy/non-lazy fpu host models 
(Suresh Siddha)  [Orabug: 20239143]
- x86, fpu: always use kernel_fpu_begin/end() for in-kernel FPU usage 
(Suresh Siddha)  [Orabug: 20239143]
- x86, kvm: use kernel_fpu_begin/end() in kvm_load/put_guest_fpu() 
(Suresh Siddha)  [Orabug: 20239143]
- x86, fpu: remove unnecessary user_fpu_end() in save_xstate_sig() 
(Suresh Siddha)  [Orabug: 20239143]
- raid5: add AVX optimized RAID5 checksumming (Jim Kukunas)  [Orabug: 
20239143]
- x86, fpu: drop the fpu state during thread exit (Suresh Siddha) 
[Orabug: 20239143]
- x32: Add a thread flag for x32 processes (H. Peter Anvin)  [Orabug: 
20239143]
- x86, fpu: Unify signal handling code paths for x86 and x86_64 kernels 
(Suresh Siddha)  [Orabug: 20239143]
- x86, fpu: Consolidate inline asm routines for saving/restoring fpu 
state (Suresh Siddha)  [Orabug: 20239143]
- x86, signal: Cleanup ifdefs and is_ia32, is_x32 (Suresh Siddha) 
[Orabug: 20239143]
into exported and internal interfaces (Linus Torvalds)  [Orabug: 20239143]
- i387: Uninline the generic FP helpers that we expose to kernel modules 
(Linus Torvalds)  [Orabug: 20239143]
- i387: use 'restore_fpu_checking()' directly in task switching code 
(Linus Torvalds)  [Orabug: 20239143]
- i387: fix up some fpu_counter confusion (Linus Torvalds)  [Orabug: 
20239143]