[El-errata] ELSA-2016-3587 Important: Oracle Linux 7 kernel-uek security update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2016-3587

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-3587.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 7 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
kernel-uek-doc-4.1.12-37.6.1.el7uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-4.1.12-37.6.1.el7uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-4.1.12-37.6.1.el7uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-4.1.12-37.6.1.el7uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-4.1.12-37.6.1.el7uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-4.1.12-37.6.1.el7uek.x86_64.rpm
dtrace-modules-4.1.12-37.6.1.el7uek-0.5.2-1.el7.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-4.1.12-37.6.1.el7uek.src.rpm
http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates/dtrace-modules-4.1.12-37.6.1.el7uek-0.5.2-1.el7.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[4.1.12-37.6.1.el7uek]
- vfs: rename: check backing inode being equal (Miklos Szeredi) 
[Orabug: 24010060]  {CVE-2016-6198} {CVE-2016-6197}
- vfs: add vfs_select_inode() helper (Miklos Szeredi)  [Orabug: 
24010060]  {CVE-2016-6198} {CVE-2016-6197}
- ovl: verify upper dentry before unlink and rename (Miklos Szeredi) 
[Orabug: 24010060]  {CVE-2016-6198} {CVE-2016-6197}
- ovl: fix getcwd() failure after unsuccessful rmdir (Rui Wang) 
[Orabug: 24010060]  {CVE-2016-6198} {CVE-2016-6197}
- xen: use same main loop for counting and remapping pages (Juergen 
Gross)  [Orabug: 24012238]
- Revert "ocfs2: bump up o2cb network protocol version" (Junxiao Bi) 
[Orabug: 23710417]
- atl2: Disable unimplemented scatter/gather feature (Ben Hutchings) 
[Orabug: 23704078]  {CVE-2016-2117}
- Revert "perf tools: Bump default sample freq to 4 kHz" 
(ashok.vairavan)  [Orabug: 23634802]
- block: Initialize max_dev_sectors to 0 (Keith Busch)  [Orabug: 23333444]
- sd: Fix rw_max for devices that report an optimal xfer size (Martin K. 
Petersen)  [Orabug: 23333444]
- sd: Fix excessive capacity printing on devices with blocks bigger than 
512 bytes (Martin K. Petersen)  [Orabug: 23333444]
- sd: Optimal I/O size is in bytes, not sectors (Martin K. Petersen) 
[Orabug: 23333444]
- sd: Reject optimal transfer length smaller than page size (Martin K. 
Petersen)  [Orabug: 23333444]
- Fix kabi issue for upstream commit ca369d51 (Joe Jin)  [Orabug: 23333444]
- block/sd: Fix device-imposed transfer length limits (Joe Jin) 
[Orabug: 23333444]