[El-errata] ELBA-2016-0150 Oracle Linux 6 kernel bug fix update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Bug Fix Advisory ELBA-2016-0150

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELBA-2016-0150.html

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

i386:
kernel-2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-abi-whitelists-2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-firmware-2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.i686.rpm
perf-2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.i686.rpm
python-perf-2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.i686.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-abi-whitelists-2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-firmware-2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
perf-2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.6.32-573.18.1.el6]
- [netdrv] bonding: "primary_reselect" with "failure" is not working 
properly (Jarod Wilson) [1295924 1290672]
- [net] netpoll: Close race condition between poll_one_napi and 
napi_disable (Neil Horman) [1295370 1252212]

[2.6.32-573.17.1.el6]
- [kernel] hrtimer: add force_hrtimer_reprogram kernel parameter (Prarit 
Bhargava) [1292082 1285142]
- [mm] fix anon_vma->degree underflow in anon_vma endless growing 
prevention (Jerome Marchand) [1285693 1151823]
- [mm] fix corner case in anon_vma endless growing prevention (Jerome 
Marchand) [1285693 1151823]
- [mm] prevent endless growth of anon_vma hierarchy (Jerome Marchand) 
[1285693 1151823]
- [mm] avoid anon_vma_chain allocation under anon_vma lock (Jerome 
Marchand) [1285693 1151823]
- [mm] avoid repeated anon_vma lock/unlock sequences in 
unlink_anon_vmas() (Jerome Marchand) [1285693 1151823]
- [mm] avoid repeated anon_vma lock/unlock sequences in anon_vma_clone() 
(Jerome Marchand) [1285693 1151823]
- [scsi] only re-lock door after EH on devices that were reset (Ewan 
Milne) [1282464 995234]
- [fs] fs: Unhash and evict unused children dentries after rmdir (Lukas 
Czerner) [1282621 1241030]
- [fs] revert 'vfs: Unhash and evict unused children dentries after 
rmdir' (Carlos Maiolino) [1282621 1241030]
- [netdrv] macvtap: fix network header pointer for VLAN tagged pkts 
(Ivan Vecera) [1280206 1213846]
- [net] Fix vlan_get_protocol for stacked vlan (Ivan Vecera) [1280206 
1213846]
- [scsi] ipr: Fix incorrect trace indexing (Gustavo Duarte) [1280211 
1209543]
- [scsi] ipr: Fix invalid array indexing for HRRQ (Gustavo Duarte) 
[1280211 1209543]

[2.6.32-573.16.1.el6]
- [net] bonding: propagate LRO disable to slave devices (Jarod Wilson) 
[1287993 1259008]
- [net] Move bonding headers under include/net (Jarod Wilson) [1287993 
1259008]

[2.6.32-573.15.1.el6]
- [net] unix: avoid use-after-free in ep_remove_wait_queue (Paolo Abeni) 
[1293247 1284900]

[2.6.32-573.14.1.el6]
- [scsi] bfa: Fix incorrect de-reference of pointer (Chad Dupuis) 
[1292370 1258533]
- [netdrv] genetlink-compat: register multicast groups (Stanislaw 
Gruszka) [1291978 1259870]

[2.6.32-573.13.1.el6]
- [security] Don't leak a key reference if request_key tries to use a 
revoked keyring (David Howells) [1288095 1188442]
- [fs] gfs2: Protect freeing directory hash table with i_lock spin_lock 
(Robert S Peterson) [1288093 1250663]