[El-errata] ELSA-2016-0494 Moderate: Oracle Linux 6 kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2016-0494

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-0494.html

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

i386:
kernel-2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-abi-whitelists-2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-firmware-2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.i686.rpm
perf-2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.i686.rpm
python-perf-2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.i686.rpm

x86_64:
kernel-2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-abi-whitelists-2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-debug-2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.i686.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-firmware-2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
perf-2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-2.6.32-573.22.1.el6.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.6.32-573.22.1.el6]
- [mm] always decrement anon_vma degree when the vma list is empty 
(Jerome Marchand) [1318364 1309898]

[2.6.32-573.21.1.el6]
- [fs] pipe: fix offset and len mismatch on pipe_iov_copy_to_user 
failure (Seth Jennings) [1310148 1302223] {CVE-2016-0774}
- [fs] gfs2: Add missing else in trans_add_meta/data (Robert S Peterson) 
[1304332 1267995]
- [fs] fs-cache: Synchronise object death state change vs operation 
submission (David Howells) [1308471 1096893]
- [fs] fs-cache: Reduce cookie ref count if submit fails (David Howells) 
[1308471 1096893]
- [mm] memcg: oom_notify use-after-free fix (Rafael Aquini) [1302763 
1294400]
- [x86] fix corruption of XMM registers when interrupt handlers use FPU 
(Mikulas Patocka) [1298994 1259023]
- [net] tcp: honour SO_BINDTODEVICE for TW_RST case too (Florian 
Westphal) [1303044 1292300]
- [net] add inet_sk_transparent() helper (Florian Westphal) [1303044 
1292300]
- [net] ipv6: tcp_ipv6 policy route issue (Florian Westphal) [1303044 
1292300]
- [net] ipv6: reuse rt6_need_strict (Florian Westphal) [1303044 1292300]
- [net] tcp: resets are misrouted (Florian Westphal) [1303044 1292300]
- [net] tcp: tcp_v4_send_reset: binding oif to iif in no sock case 
(Florian Westphal) [1303044 1292300]
- [crypto] api: Only abort operations on fatal signal (Herbert Xu) 
[1296014 1272314]
- [crypto] testmgr: don't use interruptible wait in tests (Herbert Xu) 
[1296014 1272314]
- [kernel] sched: add wait_for_completion_killable_timeout (Herbert Xu) 
[1296014 1272314]
- [net] sctp: add routing output fallback (Xin Long) [1307073 1229124]
- [net] sctp: fix dst leak (Xin Long) [1307073 1229124]
- [net] sctp: fix src address selection if using secondary addresses 
(Xin Long) [1307073 1229124]
- [net] sctp: reduce indent level on sctp_v4_get_dst (Xin Long) [1307073 
1229124]
- [scsi] hpsa: Update driver revision to RH5 (Joseph Szczypek) [1306192 
1244959]
- [scsi] hpsa: fix issues with multilun devices (Joseph Szczypek) 
[1306192 1244959]

[2.6.32-573.20.1.el6]
- [sched] kernel: sched: Fix nohz load accounting -- again (Rafael 
Aquini) [1300349 1167755]
- [sched] kernel: sched: Move sched_avg_update to update_cpu_load 
(Rafael Aquini) [1300349 1167755]
- [sched] kernel: sched: Cure more NO_HZ load average woes (Rafael 
Aquini) [1300349 1167755]
- [sched] kernel: sched: Cure load average vs NO_HZ woes (Rafael Aquini) 
[1300349 1167755]

[2.6.32-573.19.1.el6]
- [scsi] lpfc: in sli3 use configured sg_seg_cnt for sg_tablesize (Rob 
Evers) [1297838 1227036]