[El-errata] ELSA-2021-4056 Important: Oracle Linux 8 kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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Wed Nov 3 06:40:33 PDT 2021


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2021-4056

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2021-4056.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
bpftool-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.noarch.rpm
kernel-core-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-modules-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
perf-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
python3-perf-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.x86_64.rpm

aarch64:
bpftool-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-headers-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
perf-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
python3-perf-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.aarch64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/kernel-4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.src.rpm

Related CVEs:

CVE-2020-36385
CVE-2021-0512
CVE-2021-3656




Description of changes:

[4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4.OL8]
- Update Oracle Linux certificates (Kevin Lyons)
- Disable signing for aarch64 (Ilya Okomin)
- Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was added to the kernel trusted keys list (olkmod_signing_key.pem) [Orabug: 29539237]
- Update x509.genkey [Orabug: 24817676]
- Conflict with shim-ia32 and shim-x64 <= 15-11.0.5.el8

[4.18.0-305.25.1.el8_4]
- scsi: ibmvfc: Reinit target retries (Steve Best) [1993892 1965010]
- scsi: ibmvfc: Avoid move login if fast fail is enabled (Steve Best) [1993892 1965010]
- scsi: ibmvfc: Handle move login failure (Steve Best) [1993892 1965010]
- scsi: ibmvfc: Fix invalid state machine BUG_ON() (Steve Best) [1993892 1965010]
- tpm, tpm_tis: Reserve locality in tpm_tis_resume() (Jerry Snitselaar) [1998219 1920812]
- tpm, tpm_tis: Extend locality handling to TPM2 in tpm_tis_gen_interrupt() (Jerry Snitselaar) [1998219 1920812]
- tpm, tpm_tis: Decorate tpm_tis_gen_interrupt() with request_locality() (Jerry Snitselaar) [1998219 1920812]
- tpm, tpm_tis: Decorate tpm_get_timeouts() with request_locality() (Jerry Snitselaar) [1998219 1920812]
- tpm_tis: Clean up locality release (Jerry Snitselaar) [1998219 1920812]
- tpm_tis: Fix check_locality for correct locality acquisition (Jerry Snitselaar) [1998219 1920812]
- kthread: Fix PF_KTHREAD vs to_kthread() race (Waiman Long) [2010331 2001497]
- sched/fair: Ignore percpu threads for imbalance pulls (Waiman Long) [2010331 2001497]
- kthread: Extract KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU (Waiman Long) [2010331 2001497]
- sched: Optimize finish_lock_switch() (Waiman Long) [2010331 2001497]
- sched/hotplug: Ensure only per-cpu kthreads run during hotplug (Waiman Long) [2010331 2001497]
- sched: Fix balance_callback() (Waiman Long) [2010331 2001497]
- net/sched: store the last executed chain also for clsact egress (Davide Caratti) [1992230 1980537]

[4.18.0-305.24.1.el8_4]
- lockd: Fix invalid lockowner cast after vfs_test_lock (Benjamin Coddington) [2010820 1986138]
- e1000e: Do not take care about recovery NVM checksum (Ken Cox) [2002335 1984558]
- xfs: sync lazy sb accounting on quiesce of read-only mounts (Bill O'Donnell) [2011919 1917220]
- xfs: remove the unused return value from xfs_log_unmount_write (Bill O'Donnell) [2011919 1917220]
- powerpc: use stop_machine for partition migration (Frantisek Hrbata) [1993952 1979798]

[4.18.0-305.23.1.el8_4]
- CI: handle RT branches in a single config (Veronika Kabatova)
- CI: Drop private CI config (Veronika Kabatova)
- CI: extend template use (Veronika Kabatova)
- xfs: drop unnecessary setfilesize helper (Brian Foster) [2007413 1942348]
- xfs: drop unused ioend private merge and setfilesize code (Brian Foster) [2007413 1942348]
- xfs: open code ioend needs workqueue helper (Brian Foster) [2007413 1942348]
- xfs: drop submit side trans alloc for append ioends (Brian Foster) [2007413 1942348]

[4.18.0-305.22.1.el8_4]
- [s390] s390/ap: Fix hanging ioctl caused by wrong msg counter (Claudio Imbrenda) [2002635 1984762]
- cpuidle: pseries: Do not cap the CEDE0 latency in fixup_cede0_latency() (Diego Domingos) [1997431 1952809]
- cpuidle: pseries: Fixup CEDE0 latency only for POWER10 onwards (Diego Domingos) [1997431 1952809]
- EDAC/amd64: Fix PCI component registration (Aristeu Rozanski) [1982182 1918583]
- EDAC/mce_amd: Use struct cpuinfo_x86.cpu_die_id for AMD NodeId (Aristeu Rozanski) [1982182 1918583]
- x86/CPU/AMD: Remove amd_get_nb_id() (Aristeu Rozanski) [1982182 1918583]
- EDAC/mce_amd: Make fam_ops static global (Aristeu Rozanski) [1982182 1918583]
- x86/MCE/AMD: Allow Reserved types to be overwritten in smca_banks[] (Aristeu Rozanski) [1982182 1918583]
- x86/MCE/AMD: Do not use rdmsr_safe_on_cpu() in smca_configure() (Aristeu Rozanski) [1982182 1918583]
- EDAC/amd64: Get rid of the ECC disabled long message (Aristeu Rozanski) [1982182 1918583]
- EDAC/amd64: Check for memory before fully initializing an instance (Aristeu Rozanski) [1982182 1918583]
- EDAC/amd64: Use cached data when checking for ECC (Aristeu Rozanski) [1982182 1918583]
- x86/MCE: Make the number of MCA banks a per-CPU variable (Aristeu Rozanski) [1982182 1918583]
- x86/MCE/AMD: Don't cache block addresses on SMCA systems (Aristeu Rozanski) [1982182 1918583]
- x86/MCE: Make mce_banks a per-CPU array (Aristeu Rozanski) [1982182 1918583]
- x86/MCE: Make struct mce_banks[] static (Aristeu Rozanski) [1982182 1918583]
- x86/MCE/AMD: Don't report L1 BTB MCA errors on some family 17h models (Aristeu Rozanski) [1982182 1918583]
- EDAC/mce_amd: Decode MCA_STATUS in bit definition order (Aristeu Rozanski) [1982182 1918583]
- EDAC/mce_amd: Decode MCA_STATUS[Scrub] bit (Aristeu Rozanski) [1982182 1918583]
- EDAC, mce_amd: Match error descriptions to latest documentation (Aristeu Rozanski) [1982182 1918583]
- x86/MCE/AMD: Carve out the MC4_MISC thresholding quirk (Aristeu Rozanski) [1982182 1918583]
- x86/MCE/AMD: Turn off MC4_MISC thresholding on all family 0x15 models (Aristeu Rozanski) [1982182 1918583]
- net: Fix skb->csum update in inet_proto_csum_replace16(). (Balazs Nemeth) [2005980 1975193]
- RDMA/ucma: Rework ucma_migrate_id() to avoid races with destroy (Kamal Heib) [1982040 1931846] {CVE-2020-36385}
- RDMA/ucma: Fix locking for ctx->events_reported (Kamal Heib) [1982040 1931846] {CVE-2020-36385}
- RDMA/ucma: Fix the locking of ctx->file (Kamal Heib) [1982040 1931846] {CVE-2020-36385}
- RDMA/cma: Add missing locking to rdma_accept() (Kamal Heib) [1982040 1931846] {CVE-2020-36385}

[4.18.0-305.21.1.el8_4]
- HID: make arrays usage and value to be the same (Benjamin Tissoires) [1974941 1974942] {CVE-2021-0512}
- y2038: remove CONFIG_64BIT_TIME (Waiman Long) [2003569 1965360]

[4.18.0-305.20.1.el8_4]
- net/mlx5: E-Switch, Allow setting GUID for host PF vport (Alaa Hleihel) [1986837 1967488]
- net/mlx5: E-Switch, Read PF mac address (Alaa Hleihel) [1986837 1967488]
- ice: fix Tx queue iteration for Tx timestamp enablement (Ken Cox) [2000128 1999743]
- ice: restart periodic outputs around time changes (Ken Cox) [1997572 1992750]
- ice: Fix perout start time rounding (Ken Cox) [1997572 1992750]
- ice: add support for auxiliary input/output pins (Jonathan Toppins) [1998221 1956913]
- ice: enable transmit timestamps for E810 devices (Jonathan Toppins) [1998220 1944818]
- ice: enable receive hardware timestamping (Jonathan Toppins) [1998220 1944818]
- ice: report the PTP clock index in ethtool .get_ts_info (Jonathan Toppins) [1998220 1944818]
- ice: register 1588 PTP clock device object for E810 devices (Jonathan Toppins) [1998220 1944818]
- ice: add low level PTP clock access functions (Jonathan Toppins) [1998220 1944818]
- ice: add support for set/get of driver-stored firmware parameters (Jonathan Toppins) [1998220 1944818]
- ice: process 1588 PTP capabilities during initialization (Jonathan Toppins) [1998220 1944818]
- ice: add support for sideband messages (Jonathan Toppins) [1998220 1944818]
- ice: Prevent probing virtual functions (Ken Cox) [1997539 1952810]
- vfio/pci/nvlink2: Do not attempt NPU2 setup on POWER8NVL NPU (Gustavo Walbon) [2000602 1891589]
- powerpc/powernv/npu: Do not attempt NPU2 setup on POWER8NVL NPU (Gustavo Walbon) [2000602 1891589]




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