[El-errata] ELSA-2015-1978 Moderate: Oracle Linux 7 kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Tue Nov 3 13:55:43 PST 2015

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2015-1978

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-1978.html

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

x86_64:
kernel-3.10.0-229.20.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-229.20.1.el7.noarch.rpm
kernel-debug-3.10.0-229.20.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-229.20.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-3.10.0-229.20.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-3.10.0-229.20.1.el7.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-3.10.0-229.20.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-3.10.0-229.20.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-229.20.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-229.20.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-3.10.0-229.20.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-3.10.0-229.20.1.el7.x86_64.rpm

SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates/kernel-3.10.0-229.20.1.el7.src.rpm

Description of changes:

[3.10.0-229.20.1.el7.OL7]
- Oracle Linux certificates (Alexey Petrenko)

[3.10.0-229.20.1.el7]
- Revert: [crypto] nx - Check for bogus firmware properties (Phillip 
Lougher) [1247127 1190103]
- Revert: [crypto] nx - Moving NX-AES-CBC to be processed logic (Phillip 
Lougher) [1247127 1190103]
- Revert: [crypto] nx - Moving NX-AES-CCM to be processed logic and 
sg_list bounds (Phillip Lougher) [1247127 1190103]
- Revert: [crypto] nx - Moving limit and bound logic in CTR and fix IV 
vector (Phillip Lougher) [1247127 1190103]
- Revert: [crypto] nx - Moving NX-AES-ECB to be processed logic (Phillip 
Lougher) [1247127 1190103]
- Revert: [crypto] nx - Moving NX-AES-GCM to be processed logic (Phillip 
Lougher) [1247127 1190103]
- Revert: [crypto] nx - Moving NX-AES-XCBC to be processed logic 
(Phillip Lougher) [1247127 1190103]
- Revert: [crypto] nx - Fix SHA concurrence issue and sg limit bounds 
(Phillip Lougher) [1247127 1190103]
- Revert: [crypto] nx - Fixing the limit number of bytes to be processed 
(Phillip Lougher) [1247127 1190103]

[3.10.0-229.19.1.el7]
- Revert: [fs] xfs: DIO write completion size updates race (Phillip 
Lougher) [1258942 1213370]
- Revert: [fs] xfs: direct IO EOF zeroing needs to drain AIO (Phillip 
Lougher) [1258942 1213370]

[3.10.0-229.18.1.el7]
- [scsi] sd: split sd_init_command (Ewan Milne) [1264141 1109348]
- [scsi] sd: retry discard commands (Ewan Milne) [1264141 1109348]
- [scsi] sd: retry write same commands (Ewan Milne) [1264141 1109348]
- [scsi] sd: don't use scsi_setup_blk_pc_cmnd for discard requests (Ewan 
Milne) [1264141 1109348]
- [scsi] sd: don't use scsi_setup_blk_pc_cmnd for write same requests 
(Ewan Milne) [1264141 1109348]
- [scsi] sd: don't use scsi_setup_blk_pc_cmnd for flush requests (Ewan 
Milne) [1264141 1109348]
- [scsi] set sc_data_direction in common code (Ewan Milne) [1264141 1109348]
- [scsi] restructure command initialization for TYPE_FS requests (Ewan 
Milne) [1264141 1109348]
- [scsi] move the nr_phys_segments assert into scsi_init_io (Ewan Milne) 
[1264141 1109348]
- [fs] xfs: remove bitfield based superblock updates (Brian Foster) 
[1261781 1225075]
- [netdrv] ixgbe: fix X540 Completion timeout (John Greene) [1257633 
1173786]
- [lib] radix-tree: handle allocation failure in radix_tree_insert() 
(Seth Jennings) [1264142 1260613]
- [crypto] nx - Fixing the limit number of bytes to be processed 
(Herbert Xu) [1247127 1190103]
- [crypto] nx - Fix SHA concurrence issue and sg limit bounds (Herbert 
Xu) [1247127 1190103]
- [crypto] nx - Moving NX-AES-XCBC to be processed logic (Herbert Xu) 
[1247127 1190103]
- [crypto] nx - Moving NX-AES-GCM to be processed logic (Herbert Xu) 
[1247127 1190103]
- [crypto] nx - Moving NX-AES-ECB to be processed logic (Herbert Xu) 
[1247127 1190103]
- [crypto] nx - Moving limit and bound logic in CTR and fix IV vector 
(Herbert Xu) [1247127 1190103]
- [crypto] nx - Moving NX-AES-CCM to be processed logic and sg_list 
bounds (Herbert Xu) [1247127 1190103]
- [crypto] nx - Moving NX-AES-CBC to be processed logic (Herbert Xu) 
[1247127 1190103]
- [crypto] nx - Check for bogus firmware properties (Herbert Xu) 
[1247127 1190103]
- [md] raid1: extend spinlock to protect raid1_end_read_request against 
inconsistencies (Jes Sorensen) [1263416 1255758]
- [md] raid1: fix test for 'was read error from last working device' 
(Jes Sorensen) [1263416 1255758]
- [fs] xfs: direct IO EOF zeroing needs to drain AIO (Brian Foster) 
[1258942 1213370]
- [fs] xfs: DIO write completion size updates race (Brian Foster) 
[1258942 1213370]
- [fs] pnfs: Fix a memory leak when attempted pnfs fails (Steve Dickson) 
[1256640 1234986]

[3.10.0-229.17.1.el7]
- [hv] vmbus: Cleanup vmbus_establish_gpadl() (Vitaly Kuznetsov) 
[1262096 1211914]
- [scsi] iscsi: let session recovery_tmo sysfs writes persist across 
recovery (Chris Leech) [1261879 1139038]
- [scsi] ipr: Fix invalid array indexing for HRRQ (Gustavo Duarte) 
[1260625 1251184]
- [scsi] ipr: Fix incorrect trace indexing (Gustavo Duarte) [1260625 
1251184]
- [net] netfilter: synproxy: fix sending window update to client (Phil 
Sutter) [1257289 1257290 1251031 1242094]
- [net] netfilter: ip6t_synproxy: fix NULL pointer dereference (Phil 
Sutter) [1257289 1257290 1251031 1242094]
- [fs] nfsv4: Always drain the slot table before re-establishing the 
lease (Benjamin Coddington) [1256649 1240790]
- [fs] Recover from stateid-type error on SETATTR (Benjamin Coddington) 
[1256639 1214410]
- [netdrv] virtio-net: drop NETIF_F_FRAGLIST (Jason Wang) [1247839 
1247840] {CVE-2015-5156}
- [x86] mm: add memory tracking to native_pmdp_get_and_clear (David 
Bulkow) [1263525 1227357]
- [fs] dcache: d_walk() might skip too much (Denys Vlasenko) [1173812 
1173813] {CVE-2014-8559}
- [fs] dcache: deal with deadlock in d_walk() (Denys Vlasenko) [1173812 
1173813] {CVE-2014-8559}
- [fs] dcache: move d_rcu from overlapping d_child to overlapping 
d_alias (Denys Vlasenko) [1173812 1173813] {CVE-2014-8559}
- [fs] dcache: fold try_to_ascend() into the sole remaining caller 
(Denys Vlasenko) [1173812 1173813] {CVE-2014-8559}

[3.10.0-229.16.1.el7]
- [virt] kvm: x86: reset RVI upon system reset (Marcelo Tosatti) 
[1225087 1209995]

[3.10.0-229.15.1.el7]
- [cpufreq] intel_pstate: Fix overflow in busy_scaled due to long delay 
(Prarit Bhargava) [1255496 1228346]
- [netdrv] be2net: avoid vxlan offloading on multichannel configs (Ivan 
Vecera) [1256609 1232327]