[Oraclevm-errata] OVMSA-2016-0149 Important: Oracle VM 3.4 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

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Sat Oct 22 12:31:01 PDT 2016


Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2016-0149

The following updated rpms for Oracle VM 3.4 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
kernel-uek-4.1.12-61.1.16.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-4.1.12-61.1.16.el6uek.noarch.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/oraclevm/server/3.4/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-4.1.12-61.1.16.el6uek.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[4.1.12-61.1.16.el6uek]
- mm: remove gup_flags FOLL_WRITE games from __get_user_pages() (Linus 
Torvalds)  [Orabug: 24927306]  {CVE-2016-5195}

[4.1.12-61.1.15.el6uek]
- drivers/nvme: provide a module parameter for setting number of I/O 
queues (Shan Hai)  [Orabug: 24914956]
- blk-mq: improve warning for running a queue on the wrong CPU (Jens 
Axboe)  [Orabug: 24914956]
- blk-mq: fix freeze queue race (Shan Hai)  [Orabug: 24914956]




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