[El-errata] ELSA-2016-1033 Important: Oracle Linux 7 kernel security and bug fix update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2016-1033

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-1033.html

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

x86_64:
kernel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.noarch.rpm
kernel-debug-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
perf-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm
python-perf-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates/kernel-3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.src.rpm



Description of changes:

- [3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.OL7]
- Oracle Linux certificates (Alexey Petrenko)

[3.10.0-327.18.2.el7]
- [lib] keys: Fix ASN.1 indefinite length object parsing (David Howells) 
[1308814 1308815] {CVE-2016-0758}

[3.10.0-327.18.1.el7]
- [scsi] bnx2fc: Fix FCP RSP residual parsing (Maurizio Lombardi) 
[1322279 1306342]
- [mm] madvise: fix MADV_WILLNEED on shmem swapouts (Mitsuhiro Tanino) 
[1319845 1312729]
- [scsi] bnx2fc: Remove explicit logouts (Maurizio Lombardi) [1317591 
1303027]
- [cpufreq] intel_pstate: decrease number of "HWP enabled" messages 
(David Arcari) [1316821 1310927]
- [cpufreq] intel_pstate: enable HWP per CPU (David Arcari) [1316821 
1310927]
- [scsi] mpt3sas: Fix for Asynchronous completion of timedout IO and 
task abort of timedout IO (Tomas Henzl) [1316820 1259907]
- [scsi] scsi_error: should not get sense for timeout IO in scsi error 
handler (Tomas Henzl) [1316820 1259907]
- [scsi] Revert libiscsi: Reduce locking contention in fast path (Chris 
Leech) [1316812 1297876]
- [powerpc] kvm: book3s_hv: Sanitize special-purpose register values on 
guest exit (Thomas Huth) [1316636 1313725]
- [kernel] sched: Robustify topology setup (Gustavo Duarte) [1316158 
1278875]
- [kernel] sched: Don't set sd->child to NULL when it is already NULL 
(Gustavo Duarte) [1316158 1278875]
- [ib] mlx5: Fix RC transport send queue overhead computation (Don 
Dutile) [1313814 1293336]
- [block] nvme: default to 4k device page size (David Milburn) [1312399 
1245140]
- [powerpc] cxl: Fix unbalanced pci_dev_get in cxl_probe (Gustavo 
Duarte) [1312396 1288112]
- [powerpc] eeh: Probe after unbalanced kref check (Gustavo Duarte) 
[1312396 1288112]
- [fs] nfsd: fix clp->cl_revoked list deletion causing softlock in nfsd 
(J. Bruce Fields) [1311582 1300023]
- [kernel] sched/fair: Disable tg load_avg/runnable_avg update for 
root_task_group (Jiri Olsa) [1306317 1289261]
- [kernel] sched/fair: Move hot load_avg/runnable_avg into separate 
cacheline (Jiri Olsa) [1306317 1289261]

[3.10.0-327.17.1.el7]
- [fs] ceph: make fsync() wait unsafe requests that created/modified 
inode (Zheng Yan) [1320033 1291193]
- [fs] ceph: add request to i_unsafe_dirops when getting unsafe reply 
(Zheng Yan) [1320033 1291193]
- [fs] ceph: don't invalidate page cache when inode is no longer used 
(Zheng Yan) [1320033 1291193]
- [fs] ceph: fix message length computation (Zheng Yan) [1320033 1291193]
- [fs] ceph: improve readahead for file holes (Zheng Yan) [1320033 1291193]
- [fs] ceph: get inode size for each append write (Zheng Yan) [1320033 
1291193]
- [fs] ceph: cleanup use of ceph_msg_get (Zheng Yan) [1320033 1291193]
- [fs] ceph: no need to get parent inode in ceph_open (Zheng Yan) 
[1320033 1291193]
- [fs] ceph: remove the useless judgement (Zheng Yan) [1320033 1291193]
- [fs] ceph: remove redundant test of head->safe and silence static 
analysis warnings (Zheng Yan) [1320033 1291193]
- [fs] ceph: fix queuing inode to mdsdir's snaprealm (Zheng Yan) 
[1320033 1291193]
- [fs] ceph: invalidate dirty pages after forced umount (Zheng Yan) 
[1320033 1291193]
- [fs] ceph: EIO all operations after forced umount (Zheng Yan) [1320033 
1291193]
- [fs] ceph: always re-send cap flushes when MDS recovers (Zheng Yan) 
[1320033 1291193]
- [fs] ceph: fix ceph_writepages_start() (Zheng Yan) [1320033 1291193]
- [fs] ceph: switch some GFP_NOFS memory allocation to GFP_KERNEL (Zheng 
Yan) [1320033 1291193]
- [fs] ceph: pre-allocate data structure that tracks caps flushing 
(Zheng Yan) [1320033 1291193]
- [fs] ceph: re-send flushing caps (which are revoked) in reconnect 
stage (Zheng Yan) [1320033 1291193]
- [fs] ceph: send TID of the oldest pending caps flush to MDS (Zheng 
Yan) [1320033 1291193]
- [fs] ceph: track pending caps flushing globally (Zheng Yan) [1320033 
1291193]
- [fs] ceph: track pending caps flushing accurately (Zheng Yan) [1320033 
1291193]
- [fs] ceph: fix directory fsync (Zheng Yan) [1320033 1291193]
- [fs] ceph: fix flushing caps (Zheng Yan) [1320033 1291193]
- [fs] ceph: don't include used caps in cap_wanted (Zheng Yan) [1320033 
1291193]
- [fs] ceph: ratelimit warn messages for MDS closes session (Zheng Yan) 
[1320033 1291193]
- [fs] ceph: simplify two mount_timeout sites (Zheng Yan) [1320033 1291193]
- [fs] libceph: store timeouts in jiffies, verify user input (Zheng Yan) 
[1320033 1291193]
- [fs] ceph: exclude setfilelock requests when calculating oldest tid 
(Zheng Yan) [1320033 1291193]
- [fs] ceph: don't pre-allocate space for cap release messages (Zheng 
Yan) [1320033 1291193]
- [fs] ceph: make sure syncfs flushes all cap snaps (Zheng Yan) [1320033 
1291193]
- [fs] ceph: don't trim auth cap when there are cap snaps (Zheng Yan) 
[1320033 1291193]
- [fs] ceph: take snap_rwsem when accessing snap realm's cached_context 
(Zheng Yan) [1320033 1291193]
- [fs] ceph: avoid sending unnessesary FLUSHSNAP message (Zheng Yan) 
[1320033 1291193]
- [fs] ceph: set i_head_snapc when getting CEPH_CAP_FILE_WR reference 
(Zheng Yan) [1320033 1291193]
- [fs] ceph: use empty snap context for uninline_data and get_pool_perm 
(Zheng Yan) [1320033 1291193]
- [fs] ceph: check OSD caps before read/write (Zheng Yan) [1320033 1291193]
- [fs] libceph: allow setting osd_req_op's flags (Zheng Yan) [1320033 
1291193]

[3.10.0-327.16.1.el7]
- [tty] pty: make sure super_block is still valid in final /dev/tty 
close (Herton R. Krzesinski) [1320297 1291313]
- [tty] pty: fix possible use after free of tty->driver_data (Herton R. 
Krzesinski) [1320297 1291313]

[3.10.0-327.15.1.el7]
- [netdrv] sfc: push partner queue for skb->xmit_more (Jarod Wilson) 
[1318323 1267167]
- [netdrv] sfc: replace spinlocks with bit ops for busy poll locking 
(Jarod Wilson) [1318323 1267167]

[3.10.0-327.14.1.el7]
- [kernel] sched: Move cpu_active() tests from stop_two_cpus() into 
migrate_swap_stop() (Oleg Nesterov) [1299338 1252281]
- [kernel] stop_machine: Change cpu_stop_queue_two_works() to rely on 
stopper->enabled (Oleg Nesterov) [1299338 1252281]
- [kernel] stop_machine: Introduce __cpu_stop_queue_work() and 
cpu_stop_queue_two_works() (Oleg Nesterov) [1299338 1252281]
- [kernel] stop_machine: Ensure that a queued callback will be called 
before cpu_stop_park() (Oleg Nesterov) [1299338 1252281]
- [kernel] stop_machine: Remove cpu_stop_work's from list in 
cpu_stop_park() (Oleg Nesterov) [1299338 1252281]
- [kernel] stop_machine: Don't do for_each_cpu() twice in 
queue_stop_cpus_work() (Oleg Nesterov) [1299338 1252281]
- [kernel] stop_machine: Move 'cpu_stopper_task' and 'stop_cpus_work' 
into 'struct cpu_stopper' (Oleg Nesterov) [1299338 1252281]