[El-errata] ELBA-2026-9131-1 Oracle Linux 8 kernel bug fix update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Bug Fix Advisory ELBA-2026-9131-1

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELBA-2026-9131-1.html

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

x86_64:
bpftool-4.18.0-553.120.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-4.18.0-553.120.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0-553.120.1.0.1.el8_10.noarch.rpm
kernel-core-4.18.0-553.120.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-553.120.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-4.18.0-553.120.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-553.120.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-553.120.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-553.120.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-553.120.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-4.18.0-553.120.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-4.18.0-553.120.1.0.1.el8_10.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-4.18.0-553.120.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-modules-4.18.0-553.120.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-553.120.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-4.18.0-553.120.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-553.120.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-devel-4.18.0-553.120.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
perf-4.18.0-553.120.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm
python3-perf-4.18.0-553.120.1.0.1.el8_10.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/kernel-4.18.0-553.120.1.0.1.el8_10.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[4.18.0-553.120.1.0.1]
- scsi: core: Restrict legal sdev_state transitions via sysfs (Uday Shankar) [Orabug: 37778230]

[4.18.0-553.120.1]
- 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]

[4.18.0-553.120.1]
- gfs2: bufdata allocation race (Andreas Gruenbacher) [RHEL-160075]
- gfs2: Get rid of gfs2_log_[un]lock helpers (Andreas Gruenbacher) [RHEL-160075]
- gfs2: Avoid unnecessary transactions in evict_linked_inode (Andreas Gruenbacher) [RHEL-160075]
- KVM: x86: Fix a semi theoretical bug in kvm_arch_async_page_present_queued() (Maxim Levitsky) [RHEL-152657]
- KVM: x86: Don't clear async #PF queue when CR0.PG is disabled (e.g. on #SMI) (Maxim Levitsky) [RHEL-152657]

[4.18.0-553.119.1]
- s390/dasd: Copy detected format information to secondary device (Mete Durlu) [RHEL-161532]
- s390/dasd: Move quiesce state with pprc swap (Mete Durlu) [RHEL-161532]
- s390/dasd: Fix gendisk parent after copy pair swap (Mete Durlu) [RHEL-161532]
- redhat: kernel.spec: add missing sound/soc/sof/sof-audio.h to kernel-devel package (Jaroslav Kysela) [RHEL-152417]
- s390/virtio_ccw: Fix dma_parm pointer not set up (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-148307]
- dlm: fix recovery pending middle conversion (Alexander Aring) [RHEL-125538]
- dlm: check for undefined release_option values (Alexander Aring) [RHEL-136236]
- dlm: handle release_option as unsigned (Alexander Aring) [RHEL-136236]
- dlm: handle invalid lockspace member remove (Alexander Aring) [RHEL-136236]
- dlm: add new flag DLM_RELEASE_RECOVER for dlm_lockspace_release (Alexander Aring) [RHEL-136236]
- dlm: add new configfs entry release_recover for lockspace members (Alexander Aring) [RHEL-136236]
- dlm: add new RELEASE_RECOVER uevent attribute for release_lockspace (Alexander Aring) [RHEL-136236]
- dlm: use defines for force values in dlm_release_lockspace (Alexander Aring) [RHEL-136236]
- dlm: check for defined force value in dlm_lockspace_release (Alexander Aring) [RHEL-136236]
- dlm: disallow different configs nodeid storages (Alexander Aring) [RHEL-136236]
- dlm: prevent NPD when writing a positive value to event_done (Alexander Aring) [RHEL-136236] {CVE-2025-23131}
- dlm: Switch to using wait_event() (Alexander Aring) [RHEL-136236]

[4.18.0-553.118.1]
- scsi: qla2xxx: Fix improper freeing of purex item (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-159219] {CVE-2025-68741}
- ALSA: aloop: Fix racy access at PCM trigger (Jaroslav Kysela) [RHEL-150125] {CVE-2026-23191}
- ALSA: aloop: Introduce a function to get if access is interleaved mode (CKI Backport Bot) [RHEL-150125] {CVE-2026-23191}