[Ksplice][Fedora-17-updates] New updates available via Ksplice (FEDORA-2012-13031)

[Jamie Iles]

Synopsis: FEDORA-2012-13031 can now be patched using Ksplice

Systems running Fedora 17 can now use Ksplice to patch against the
latest Fedora kernel update, FEDORA-2012-13031.

INSTALLING THE UPDATES

We recommend that all users of Ksplice Uptrack on Fedora 17 install
these updates.

On systems that have "autoinstall = yes" in /etc/uptrack/uptrack.conf,
these updates will be installed automatically and you do not need to
take any action.

Alternatively, you can install these updates by running:

# /usr/sbin/uptrack-upgrade -y


DESCRIPTION

* Kernel crash in ext4 block allocation.

Invalid locking could result in a sleeping operation in an atomic
context resulting in a kernel panic.


* Kernel panic on removal of large amount of files.

A failure to initialize a loop counter can lead to a kernel panic
when attempting to remove a large amount of files.


* NULL pointer dereference handling scsi over IB command responses.

A NULL dereference will occur if a reply to a previous request would happen
during or after an abort command.


* Invalid memory access in xHCI ring queue handling.

An incorrect dequeuing of items from the xHCI ring queue can
cause general protection faults by accessing invalid memory regions.

SUPPORT

Ksplice support is available at ksplice-support_ww at oracle.com.