[El-errata] ELSA-2017-3640 Important: Oracle Linux 6 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2017-3640

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2017-3640.html

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

x86_64:
kernel-uek-4.1.12-103.9.4.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-4.1.12-103.9.4.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-4.1.12-103.9.4.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-4.1.12-103.9.4.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-4.1.12-103.9.4.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-4.1.12-103.9.4.el6uek.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-4.1.12-103.9.4.el6uek.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[4.1.12-103.9.4.el6uek]
- thp: run vma_adjust_trans_huge() outside i_mmap_rwsem (Kirill A. 
Shutemov)  [Orabug: 27026180]

[4.1.12-103.9.3.el6uek]
- selinux: fix off-by-one in setprocattr (Stephen Smalley)  [Orabug: 
27001717]  {CVE-2017-2618} {CVE-2017-2618} {CVE-2017-2618}
- sysctl: Drop reference added by grab_header in proc_sys_readdir (Zhou 
Chengming)  [Orabug: 27036903]  {CVE-2016-9191} {CVE-2016-9191} 
{CVE-2016-9191}
- KEYS: prevent KEYCTL_READ on negative key (Eric Biggers)  [Orabug: 
27050248]  {CVE-2017-12192}
- IB/ipoib: For sendonly join free the multicast group on leave 
(Christoph Lameter)  [Orabug: 27077718]
- IB/ipoib: increase the max mcast backlog queue (Doug Ledford) 
[Orabug: 27077718]
- IB/ipoib: Make sendonly multicast joins create the mcast group (Doug 
Ledford)  [Orabug: 27077718]
- IB/ipoib: Expire sendonly multicast joins (Christoph Lameter) 
[Orabug: 27077718]
- IB/ipoib: Suppress warning for send only join failures (Jason 
Gunthorpe)  [Orabug: 27077718]
- IB/ipoib: Clean up send-only multicast joins (Doug Ledford)  [Orabug: 
27077718]
- netlink: allow to listen "all" netns (Nicolas Dichtel)  [Orabug: 
27077944]
- netlink: rename private flags and states (Nicolas Dichtel)  [Orabug: 
27077944]
- netns: use a spin_lock to protect nsid management (Nicolas Dichtel) 
[Orabug: 27077944]
- netns: notify new nsid outside __peernet2id() (Nicolas Dichtel) 
[Orabug: 27077944]
- netns: rename peernet2id() to peernet2id_alloc() (Nicolas Dichtel) 
[Orabug: 27077944]
- netns: always provide the id to rtnl_net_fill() (Nicolas Dichtel) 
[Orabug: 27077944]
- netns: returns always an id in __peernet2id() (Nicolas Dichtel) 
[Orabug: 27077944]
- Hang/soft lockup in d_invalidate with simultaneous calls (Al Viro) 
[Orabug: 27052681]