[El-errata] ELBA-2025-15008-1 Oracle Linux 8 kernel bug fix update

Fri Sep 5 03:32:13 UTC 2025

Oracle Linux Bug Fix Advisory ELBA-2025-15008-1

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELBA-2025-15008-1.html

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

x86_64:
bpftool-4.18.0-553.72.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-4.18.0-553.72.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0-553.72.1.0.1.el8_10.noarch.rpm
kernel-core-4.18.0-553.72.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-553.72.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-4.18.0-553.72.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-553.72.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-553.72.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-553.72.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-553.72.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-4.18.0-553.72.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-4.18.0-553.72.1.0.1.el8_10.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-4.18.0-553.72.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-modules-4.18.0-553.72.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-553.72.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-4.18.0-553.72.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-553.72.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-553.72.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
perf-4.18.0-553.72.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
python3-perf-4.18.0-553.72.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm

SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/kernel-4.18.0-553.72.1.0.1.el8_10.src.rpm

Description of changes:

[4.18.0-553.72.1.0.1.el8_10.OL8]
- scsi: core: Restrict legal sdev_state transitions via sysfs (Uday Shankar) [Orabug: 37778230]

[4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10.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 <= 15.3-1.0.3
- Remove upstream reference during boot (Kevin Lyons) [Orabug: 34750652]
- Add new Oracle Linux Driver Signing (key 1) certificate [Orabug: 37985772]

[4.18.0-553.72.1.el8_10]
- scsi: lpfc: Use memcpy() for BIOS version (Ewan D. Milne) [RHEL-105927] {CVE-2025-38332}
- watchdog/perf: properly initialize the turbo mode timestamp and rearm counter (David Arcari) [RHEL-103371]
- RDMA/iwcm: Fix use-after-free of work objects after cm_id destruction (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-104260] {CVE-2025-38211}
- RDMA/iwcm: Fix WARNING:at_kernel/workqueue.c:#check_flush_dependency (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-104260] {CVE-2024-47696}
- RDMA/iwcm: Fix a use-after-free related to destroying CM IDs (Michal Schmidt) [RHEL-104260] {CVE-2024-42285}
- net/sched: sch_qfq: Avoid triggering might_sleep in atomic context in qfq_delete_class (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-106312] {CVE-2025-38477}
- net/sched: sch_qfq: Fix race condition on qfq_aggregate (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-106312] {CVE-2025-38477}
- cxgb4: use port number to set mac addr (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-75976]
- net/sched: Abort __tc_modify_qdisc if parent class does not exist (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-107894]
- aacraid: fix a buffer overflow (Tomas Henzl) [RHEL-62313]
- filemap: remove use of wait bookmarks (Brian Foster) [RHEL-107181]
- x86/efistub: Omit physical KASLR when memory reservations exist (Ricardo Robaina) [RHEL-82369]
- efi/libstub: Check return value of efi_parse_options (Ricardo Robaina) [RHEL-82369]
- efi/x86: Support builtin command line (Ricardo Robaina) [RHEL-82369]
- tipc: Fix use-after-free in tipc_conn_close(). (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-106635] {CVE-2025-38464}
- sbitmap: remove stale comment in sbq_calc_wake_batch (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- block: Fix lockdep warning in blk_mq_mark_tag_wait (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- blk-mq: fix potential io hang by wrong 'wake_batch' (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- lib/sbitmap: define swap_lock as raw_spinlock_t (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- sbitmap: fix io hung due to race on sbitmap_word::cleared (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- sbitmap: use READ_ONCE to access map->word (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- sbitmap: fix batching wakeup (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- sbitmap: correct wake_batch recalculation to avoid potential IO hung (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- sbitmap: add sbitmap_find_bit to remove repeat code in __sbitmap_get/__sbitmap_get_shallow (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- sbitmap: rewrite sbitmap_find_bit_in_index to reduce repeat code (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- sbitmap: remove redundant check in __sbitmap_queue_get_batch (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- sbitmap: remove unnecessary calculation of alloc_hint in __sbitmap_get_shallow (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- sbitmap: Use atomic_long_try_cmpxchg in __sbitmap_queue_get_batch (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- sbitmap: remove unnecessary code in __sbitmap_queue_get_batch (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- lib/sbitmap: Fix invalid loop in __sbitmap_queue_get_batch() (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- lib/sbitmap: kill 'depth' from sbitmap_word (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- sbitmap: add __sbitmap_queue_get_batch() (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- sbitmap: Try each queue to wake up at least one waiter (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- wait: Return number of exclusive waiters awaken (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- sched/wait: Deduplicate code with do-while (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- sbitmap: Advance the queue index before waking up a queue (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- sbitmap: Use single per-bitmap counting to wake up queued tags (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- blk-mq: Fix wrong wakeup batch configuration which will cause hang (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]
- blk-mq: fix tag_get wait task can't be awakened (Ming Lei) [RHEL-81758]