[El-errata] ELBA-2016-3520 Oracle Linux 6 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel bug fix update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Bug Fix Advisory ELBA-2016-3520

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELBA-2016-3520.html

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

i386:
kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.276.1.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-2.6.39-400.276.1.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-2.6.39-400.276.1.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-2.6.39-400.276.1.el6uek.i686.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-2.6.39-400.276.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.39-400.276.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-uek-firmware-2.6.39-400.276.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-2.6.39-400.276.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.276.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-2.6.39-400.276.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-2.6.39-400.276.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-2.6.39-400.276.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-2.6.39-400.276.1.el6uek.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.6.39-400.276.1.el6uek]
- block: bump BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS to 2560 (Joe Jin)  [Orabug: 22521844]
- Revert "block: remove artifical max_hw_sectors cap" (Joe Jin) 
[Orabug: 22521844]

[2.6.39-400.272.0.el6uek]
- rds: print rdma_cm_id while establishing connection (Ajaykumar 
Hotchandani)  [Orabug: 22315028]
- rdma_cm: extend debug for remote mapping (Ajaykumar Hotchandani) 
[Orabug: 22315028]
- OFED: indicate consistent vendor error (Ajaykumar Hotchandani) 
[Orabug: 22308787]
- mlx4_core: print device details for PORT event (Ajaykumar Hotchandani) 
  [Orabug: 22113813]
- mlx4_core: enable print for device reset (Ajaykumar Hotchandani) 
[Orabug: 22308637]
- mlx4_core: correct fmr_reserve() (Ajaykumar Hotchandani)  [Orabug: 
22137952]

[2.6.39-400.268.0.el6uek]
- mm/swap.c: reorganize put_compound_page() (Andrew Morton)  [Orabug: 
16823432]
- mm/hugetlb.c: simplify PageHeadHuge() and PageHuge() (Andrew Morton) 
[Orabug: 16823432]
- mm: document PageHuge somewhat (Andrew Morton)  [Orabug: 16823432]
- mm: hugetlbfs: use __compound_tail_refcounted in __get_page_tail too 
(Andrea Arcangeli)  [Orabug: 16823432]
- mm: tail page refcounting optimization for slab and hugetlbfs (Andrea 
Arcangeli)  [Orabug: 16823432]
- mm: thp: optimize compound_trans_huge (Andrea Arcangeli)  [Orabug: 
16823432]
- mm: hugetlbfs: move the put/get_page slab and hugetlbfs optimization 
in a faster path (Andrea Arcangeli)  [Orabug: 16823432]
- mm: hugetlb: use get_page_foll() in follow_hugetlb_page() (Andrea 
Arcangeli)  [Orabug: 16823432]
- mm: hugetlbfs: fix hugetlbfs optimization (Andrea Arcangeli)  [Orabug: 
16823432]
- mm: fix aio performance regression for database caused by THP (Khalid 
Aziz)  [Orabug: 16823432]
- mm: fix slab->page flags corruption (Pravin B Shelar)  [Orabug: 16823432]
- IB/mlx4: Implement IB_QP_CREATE_USE_GFP_NOIO (Jiri Kosina)
- IB: Add a QP creation flag to use GFP_NOIO allocations (Or Gerlitz)
- IB: Return error for unsupported QP creation flags (Or Gerlitz)

[2.6.39-400.267.0.el6uek]
- x86/xen: properly retrieve NMI reason (Jan Beulich)  [Orabug: 21892076]
- x86/mrst: Avoid reporting wrong nmi status (Jacob Pan)  [Orabug: 
21892076]
- xen: Support 64-bit PV guest receiving NMIs (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk) 
[Orabug: 21892076]
- nfsd: fix rare symlink decoding bug (J. Bruce Fields)  [Orabug: 18405506]
- ocfs2: __ocfs2_mknod_locked should return error when 
ocfs2_create_new_inode_locks() failed (Xue jiufei)  [Orabug: 21171285]
- NFSv4: Get rid of unnecessary BUG_ON()s (Trond Myklebust)  [Orabug: 
21744595]
- IPoIB: serialize changing on tx_outstanding (Wengang Wang)  [Orabug: 
21861366]
- x86/xen: Do not clip xen_e820_map to xen_e820_map_entries when 
sanitizing map (Malcolm Crossley)
- IPoIB: Drop priv->lock before calling ipoib_send() (Wengang Wang)
- IB/mlx4: Use vmalloc for WR buffers when needed (Wengang Wang) 
[Orabug: 22025569]
- mm: move kvfree to mm/util (Wengang Wang)  [Orabug: 22025569]
- mlx4_core: Introduce restrictions for PD update (Ajaykumar Hotchandani)
- mlx4: Increase SYNC_TPT command timeout (Mukesh Kacker)  [Orabug: 
21692254]
- IB/ipoib: Calculate csum only when skb->ip_summed is CHECKSUM_PARTIAL 
(Yuval Shaia)  [Orabug: 20873175]
- virtio-net: drop NETIF_F_FRAGLIST (Jason Wang)  [Orabug: 22145599] 
{CVE-2015-5156}

[2.6.39-400.266.0.el6uek]
- xen/blkfront: remove redundant flush_op (Vitaly Kuznetsov)  [Orabug: 
21862750]
- xen/blkfront: improve protection against issuing unsupported REQ_FUA 
(Vitaly Kuznetsov)  [Orabug: 21862750]

[2.6.39-400.265.0.el6uek]
- intel_idle: Broadwell support (Santosh Shilimkar)  [Orabug: 21805197]
- NVMe: Setup max hardware sector count to 512KB (Santosh Shilimkar) 
[Orabug: 21818552]
- mlx4_core: Fix integer overflows so 8TBs of memory (Wengang Wang)
- iw/rds: fixed big endianness conversion issue for dp->dp_ack_seq (Qing 
Huang)  [Orabug: 21107553]
- bonding: change error message to debug message in bond_release 
(Wengang Wang)