[El-errata] ELBA-2020-5034 Oracle Linux 7 kexec-tools bug fix and enhancement update

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Mon Nov 16 19:46:20 PST 2020


Oracle Linux Bug Fix Advisory ELBA-2020-5034

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELBA-2020-5034.html

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

x86_64:
kexec-tools-2.0.15-51.0.1.el7_9.1.x86_64.rpm
kexec-tools-anaconda-addon-2.0.15-51.0.1.el7_9.1.x86_64.rpm
kexec-tools-eppic-2.0.15-51.0.1.el7_9.1.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates/kexec-tools-2.0.15-51.0.1.el7_9.1.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.0.15-51.0.1.1]
- Check MokSBStateRT variable state to identify SecureBoot mode [Orabug: 
31903240]
- Add delay to avoid upstream race condition [Orabug: 31121959]
- kdump: append no_timer_check to kdump kernel cmdline on xen guests 
[Orabug: 30928441]
- kdump: append iommu=off to kdump kernel cmdline [Orabug: 30832988]
- rebase on top makedumpfile 1.6.6 [Orabug: 30352094]
- makedumpfile: bump LATEST_VERSION to 5.4.9 [Orabug: 30521746]
- makedumpfile: backport needed upstream aarch64 patches [Orabug: 30352094]
- trigger initramfs cleanup for kernel-uek and kernel-uek-debug [Orabug: 
30192631]
- change makedumpfile fixed size buffer for VMCOREINFO 
(isaac.chen at oracle.com) [Orabug: 29612733]
- rebase 
kexec-tools-2.0.8-dracut-module-setup-ibft-avoid-dup-config.patch 
(brian.maly at oracle.com) [Orabug: 28872281]
- don't patch files in SOURCES directory. That breaks building from the 
srpm (dave.kleikamp at oracle.com)
- dracut-module-setup: avoid duplicate config for ibft [Orabug: 22780125]
- kdumpctl: exclude default_hugepagesz setting from kdump kernel cmdline
(Sriharsha Yadagudde) [Orabug: 19134999]
- kdumpctl: verify if kernel support securelevel interface
(Sriharsha Yadagudde) [Orabug: 18905671]

[2.0.15-51.1]
- makedumpfile/sadump: Fix a KASLR problem of sadump while kdump is working





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