[El-errata] ELSA-2015-0987 Important: Oracle Linux 7 kernel security and bug fix update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2015-0987

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0987.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 7 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
kernel-3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.noarch.rpm
kernel-debug-3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates/kernel-3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[3.10.0-229.4.2.el7]
- Oracle Linux certificates (Alexey Petrenko)

[3.10.0-229.4.2.el7]
- [x86] crypto: aesni - fix memory usage in GCM decryption (Kurt 
Stutsman) [1213331 1212178] {CVE-2015-3331}

[3.10.0-229.4.1.el7]
- [crypto] x86: sha256_ssse3 - also test for BMI2 (Herbert Xu) [1211484 
1201563]
- [crypto] testmgr: fix RNG return code enforcement (Herbert Xu) 
[1211487 1198978]
- [crypto] rng: RNGs must return 0 in success case (Herbert Xu) [1211487 
1198978]
- [crypto] x86: sha1 - reduce size of the AVX2 asm implementation 
(Herbert Xu) [1211291 1177968]
- [crypto] x86: sha1 - fix stack alignment of AVX2 variant (Herbert Xu) 
[1211291 1177968]
- [crypto] x86: sha1 - re-enable the AVX variant (Herbert Xu) [1211291 
1177968]
- [crypto] sha: SHA1 transform x86_64 AVX2 (Herbert Xu) [1211291 1177968]
- [crypto] sha-mb: sha1_mb_alg_state can be static (Herbert Xu) [1211290 
1173756]
- [crypto] mcryptd: mcryptd_flist can be static (Herbert Xu) [1211290 
1173756]
- [crypto] sha-mb: SHA1 multibuffer job manager and glue code (Herbert 
Xu) [1211290 1173756]
- [crypto] sha-mb: SHA1 multibuffer crypto computation (x8 AVX2) 
(Herbert Xu) [1211290 1173756]
- [crypto] sha-mb: SHA1 multibuffer submit and flush routines for AVX2 
(Herbert Xu) [1211290 1173756]
- [crypto] sha-mb: SHA1 multibuffer algorithm data structures (Herbert 
Xu) [1211290 1173756]
- [crypto] sha-mb: multibuffer crypto infrastructure (Herbert Xu) 
[1211290 1173756]
- [kernel] sched: Add function single_task_running to let a task check 
if it is the only task running on a cpu (Herbert Xu) [1211290 1173756]
- [crypto] ahash: initialize entry len for null input in crypto hash sg 
list walk (Herbert Xu) [1211290 1173756]
- [crypto] ahash: Add real ahash walk interface (Herbert Xu) [1211290 
1173756]
- [char] random: account for entropy loss due to overwrites (Herbert Xu) 
[1211288 1110044]
- [char] random: allow fractional bits to be tracked (Herbert Xu) 
[1211288 1110044]
- [char] random: statically compute poolbitshift, poolbytes, poolbits 
(Herbert Xu) [1211288 1110044]

[3.10.0-229.3.1.el7]
- [netdrv] mlx4_en: tx_info->ts_requested was not cleared (Doug Ledford) 
[1209240 1178070]

[3.10.0-229.2.1.el7]
- [char] tpm: Added Little Endian support to vtpm module (Steve Best) 
[1207051 1189017]
- [powerpc] pseries: Fix endian problems with LE migration (Steve Best) 
[1207050 1183198]
- [iommu] vt-d: Work around broken RMRR firmware entries (Myron Stowe) 
[1205303 1195802]
- [iommu] vt-d: Store bus information in RMRR PCI device path (Myron 
Stowe) [1205303 1195802]
- [s390] zcrypt: enable s390 hwrng to seed kernel entropy (Hendrik 
Brueckner) [1205300 1196398]
- [s390] zcrypt: improve device probing for zcrypt adapter cards 
(Hendrik Brueckner) [1205300 1196398]
- [net] team: fix possible null pointer dereference in team_handle_frame 
(Jiri Pirko) [1202359 1188496]
- [fs] fsnotify: fix handling of renames in audit (Paul Moore) [1202358 
1191562]
- [net] openvswitch: Fix net exit (Jiri Benc) [1202357 1200859]
- [fs] gfs2: Move gfs2_file_splice_write outside of #ifdef (Robert S 
Peterson) [1201256 1193910]
- [fs] gfs2: Allocate reservation during splice_write (Robert S 
Peterson) [1201256 1193910]
- [crypto] aesni: fix "by8" variant for 128 bit keys (Herbert Xu) 
[1201254 1174971]
- [crypto] aesni: remove unused defines in "by8" variant (Herbert Xu) 
[1201254 1174971]
- [crypto] aesni: fix counter overflow handling in "by8" variant 
(Herbert Xu) [1201254 1174971]
- [crypto] aes: AES CTR x86_64 "by8" AVX optimization (Herbert Xu) 
[1201254 1174971]
- [kernel] audit: restore AUDIT_LOGINUID unset ABI (Richard Guy Briggs) 
[1197748 1120491]
- [kernel] audit: replace getname()/putname() hacks with reference 
counters (Paul Moore) [1197746 1155208]
- [kernel] audit: fix filename matching in __audit_inode() and 
__audit_inode_child() (Paul Moore) [1197746 1155208]
- [kernel] audit: enable filename recording via getname_kernel() (Paul 
Moore) [1197746 1155208]
- [fs] namei: simpler calling conventions for filename_mountpoint() 
(Paul Moore) [1197746 1155208]
- [fs] namei: create proper filename objects using getname_kernel() 
(Paul Moore) [1197746 1155208]
- [fs] namei: rework getname_kernel to handle up to PATH_MAX sized 
filenames (Paul Moore) [1197746 1155208]
- [fs] namei: cut down the number of do_path_lookup() callers (Paul 
Moore) [1197746 1155208]
- [fs] execve: use 'struct filename *' for executable name passing (Paul 
Moore) [1197746 1155208]
- [infiniband] core: Prevent integer overflow in ib_umem_get address 
arithmetic (Doug Ledford) [1181177 1179347] {CVE-2014-8159}