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ELSA-2008-0665

ELSA-2008-0665 - Updated kernel packages for Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.7

Type:SECURITY
Severity:MODERATE
Release Date:2008-08-01

Description



[2.6.9-78]
-alsa: Fix mic not working for HP XW series (Brian Maly) [453783]

[2.6.9-77]
-alsa: Add missing quirks for alc262 (Brian Maly) [453783]
-Revert 'i8042: remove polling timer support - Original bz 246233' (Vivek Goyal) [450918]

[2.6.9-76]
-tty: fix tty holes (Vivek Goyal) [453155] {CVE-2008-2812}
-xen: fix use of pvdisk or blkfront or xen-vbd for boot device (Don Dutile) [452210]
-ppc64: fix restore of vmx registers in signal return (Brad Peters) [403471]
-pci: correct pci bus assignments (Pete Zaitcev) [181648]
-Fix diskdump failure on new mpt fusion driver (Chip Coldwell) [268921]

[2.6.9-75]
-mptfusion: Fix regression where commands timeout when issuing host reset to mpt fusion hba (Chip Coldwell) [452265]
-copy_user_generic_c does not zero bytes left at destination after GPF (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [451274] {CVE-2008-2729}
-sctp: make sure length argument passed does not overflow (Neil Horman) [452480] {CVE-2008-2826}
-[infiniband] ehca: fixes lost interrupts problem over ib ehca after lpar to lpar communication (Brad Peters) [450689]
-cifs: don t allow demultiplex thread to exit until kthread_stop is called (Jeff Layton) [442789]
-Fix copy_from_user vulnerability (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [433943] {CVE-2008-0598}
-Revert 'Enable fb_radeon driver on ppc64' (Vivek Goyal) [350931]

[2.6.9-74]
-[xen] pv on hvm: Fix cant open /dev/xvda while probing disks during installation issue (Don Dutile) [447315]
-bnx2x: correct chip reset (Andy Gospodarek) [328001]
-Fix race in switch_uid (Vince Worthington) [441282]

[2.6.9-73]
-Add more PCI IDs to support hdmi audio on amd chipsets (Bhavana Nagendra) [428964]
-powernow k8: Repost to fix unnecessary error messages with synchronized p state transitions (Ed Pollard) [276771]
-[usb] ohci-hcd: Fix kernel failed to boot and dropped to xmon on ppc64 (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [443052]
-bonding: Fix interface flags issue (Andy Gospodarek) [442124]
-qla4xxx: fix time outs, syncronization and re-logins (Marcus Barrow) [437898]
-qla2xxx: update version to 8.02.09-d0-rhel4.7-04 (Marcus Barrow) [450645]
-qla2xxx: correct srb usage after completion free issues resulting in slab corruption (Marcus Barrow) [450645]
-qla2xxx: add 4 and 8 gb to port speed reporting (Marcus Barrow) [450645]
-qla2xxx: add isp85xx in some ioctl paths for nvram and flash handling (Marcus Barrow) [450645]
-qla2xxx: fix debug messages (Marcus Barrow) [450645]
-qla2xxx: allocated firmware dump space for isp85xx (Marcus Barrow) [450645]
-qla2xxx: correct isp84xx verify chip response handling (Marcus Barrow) [450645]
-qla2xxx: add isp84xx to list of optionrom layout ids (Marcus Barrow) [450645]
-qla2xxx: correct isp84xx logic operations in qla2x00_fw_ready (Marcus Barrow) [450645]
-qla2xxx: correct isp84xx structure size mismatch with api (Marcus Barrow) [450645]
-qla2xxx: correct isp84xx ioctl handling (Marcus Barrow) [450645]
-Enable fb_radeon driver on ppc64 (Brad Peters) [350931]
-ehca: fix for event queue overflow on ib ehca adapters (Brad Peters) [446714]
-Fix deadlock possibility in arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown() (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [450094]
-megaraid: Add support ibm blackrock controller (Chip Coldwell) [449718]
-sit: Fix exploitable remote memory leak (Jiri Pirko) [446036] {CVE-2008-2136}
-ehca: fix race possibility between qp async handler and destroy_qp (Brad Peters) [446110]
-Fix hang when using /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches under heavy load on large system (Larry Woodman) [449381]
-Fix possible buffer overflow in asn.1 parsing routines (Anton Arapov) [444463] {CVE-2008-1673}
-[s390] Fix vmrm cmm use triggering oom killer (Hans-Joachim Picht) [446257]
-[s390] fix iucv limit and cmm proc permissions (Hans-Joachim Picht) [446257]
-Extend mce banks support to more than 6 for dunnington and nehalem (Geoff Gustafson) [446675]
-ppc64: Fix slb shadow buffer support (Brad Peters) [440138]
-Add hp DL385 G2 and DL585 G2 to whitelist for bfsort (Tony Camuso) [251032]

[2.6.9-72]
-Minor code cleanup to sys_times() call (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [448934]
-qla2xxx: Update firmware for 4,8 gb/s adapters to version 8.02.09-d0-rhel4.7-03 (Marcus Barrow) [448641]
-xen: minimize loss of network connectivity after guest migration (Don Dutile) [444473]
-dm-raid: Fix bad performance of dm-raid (Mikulas Patocka) [432566]
-Re-apply: Add HP DL580 G5 to bfsort whitelist (Tony Camuso) [429727]
-Revert '[MOXA] buffer overflow in moxa driver' (Vivek Goyal) [423141]
-Revert 'neofb: avoid overwriting fb_info fields' (Vivek Goyal) [430252]

[2.6.9-71]
-cciss: disable scsi_ioctl_send_command in cciss driver (Doug Chapman) [443053]
-bnx2: fix panic when changing device settings while running netconsole (Andy Gospodarek) [444041]
-Infiniband: Fix ipoib oops (Doug Ledford) [445736]
-Fix system lockup in eventpoll (Josef Bacik) [446409]
-ptrace: fix ptrace_attach and ptrace_detach race (Jerome Marchand) [311931]
-diskdump: Fix diskdump regression in rhel 4.6 (Chip Coldwell) [268921]
-[s390] ptrace: restore single_step behavior after do_signal (Jerome Marchand) [426647]
-[NET] change skb_reserve to have signed length (Neil Horman) [445774]
-x86_64: ia32 syscall restart fix (Jerome Marchand) [435000]
-ehca: fix ehca driver for use with dapl (Doug Ledford) [443072]
-ibmebus: Cleanup all devices upon module rmmod (Brad Peters) [441739]
-sys_times: Fix system unresponsiveness during many concurrent invocation of sys_times (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [435280]
-ehea: support ipv4 checksum capability only (Brad Peters) [439445]
-xen: Fix blkfront deadlock on pv restore (Don Dutile) [429103]
-Re-apply: Fix usb stress test issue on amd sbx00 systems (Bhavana Nagendra) [435787]
-libata: ahci kill spurious ncq completion detection (David Milburn) [432396]
-libata: implement ATA_PFLAG_RESETTING (David Milburn) [432396]

[2.6.9-70]
-proc pid limits: fix duplicate file names (Neil Horman) [443825]
-md: make md pack rdev list (Doug Ledford) [194585]
-Add needed locking to fcheck() in both dnotify.c and locks.c (Alexander Viro) [443438 439757] {CVE-2008-1669 CVE-2008-1375}
-bonding: fix link monitor capability check (Andy Gospodarek) [441897]
-Kernel doesn not clear DF for signal handlers (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [437315] {CVE-2008-1367}
-Fix pv on hvm crash due to vnif increase patch (Don Dutile) [442538]
-pv on hvm: memory corruption due to vnif increase (Don Dutile) [442298]
-oprofile fix for penryn based procs (Geoff Gustafson) [439540]
-sound: Fix sound driver update compilation error (Vivek Goyal) [319701 228440 228443 216447 248060 240912]
-sound: Enable CONFIG_SND_INTEL_HDA=m driver (Vivek Goyal) [319701 228440 228443 216447 248060 240912]
-Add HDMI audio support for AMD ATI chipsets (Bhavana Nagendra) [428964]
-Dual core chips reported as quad core in cpuinfo (Geoff Gustafson) [326781]
-alsa: Unmute DACs on AMD shiner (ad1884) (Brian Maly) [351911 314391]
-[SOUND] azx sound driver update (Brian Maly) [319701 228440 228443 216447 248060 240912 234358]
-Revert 's390: qeth: tcpdump does not work with osa Layer2 and VLAN enabled' (Vivek Goyal) [379031]

[2.6.9-69]
-Updated the spec file for beta build numbering (Vivek Goyal)

[2.6.9-68.34]
-Fix memory leak of struct percpu_data in free_percpu (Larry Woodman) [441321]
-Do not limit shmem locked memory when rlimit_memlock is rlim_infinity (Larry Woodman) [439926]
-sata: fix work around sb600 sata hw errata (Bhavana Nagendra) [300861]
-diskdump: Fix flush_cpu_workqueue so that diskdump can work after momentary link down of lpfc (Takao Indoh) [216618]
-Revert 'Fix usb stress test issue on amd sbx00 systems' (Vivek Goyal) [435787]

[2.6.9-68.33]
-enhanced partition statistics: fix update partition statitics (Jerome Marchand) [233579]
-enhanced partition statistics: fix core statistics (Jerome Marchand) [233579]
-qla2xxx: isp84xx variant ioctl support (Marcus Barrow) [441445]
-qla2xxx: isp84xx variant support (Marcus Barrow) [441445]
-pci: fix quirk for ht1000 bridge chips (Andy Gospodarek) [439109]
-rpc: do not block on skb allocation (Jeff Layton) [439436]
-nmi: kill disable_irq calls (Aristeu Rozanski) [172749]
-nmi: disable lapic and io apic nmis on unknown_nmi_panic (Aristeu Rozanski) [172749]
-nmi: use perfctr functions for probing (Aristeu Rozanski) [172749]
-nmi: update check_nmi_watchdog (Aristeu Rozanski) [172749]
-nmi: update reserve_lapic_nmi (Aristeu Rozanski) [172749]
-nmi: use setup_apic_nmi_watchdog and stop_apic_nmi_watchdog in suspend resume (Aristeu Rozanski) [172749]
-nmi: change nmi_active usage (Aristeu Rozanski) [172749]
-nmi: update nmi_watchdog_tick (Aristeu Rozanski) [172749]
-nmi: modify setup_acpi_nmi_watchdog to handle both io apic and lapic (Aristeu Rozanski) [172749]
-nmi: introduce do_nmi_callback (Aristeu Rozanski) [172749]
-nmi: introduce per cpu wd_enabled (Aristeu Rozanski) [172749]
-nmi: add perfctr infrastructure (Aristeu Rozanski) [172749]
-[SCSI] aic79xx: fix timer handling (David Milburn) [243936]

[2.6.9-68.32]
-xen: Fix gettimeofday is not monotonically increasing on xenU (Don Dutile) [438975]
-xen: config file additions for xen pv-on-hvm drivers (Don Dutile) [437423]
-xen: pv-on-hvm driver subsystem for non xen kernels (Don Dutile) [437423]
-xen: modifications to drivers/xen/ files for pv on hvm use (Don Dutile) [437423]
-xen: pv on hvm kconfig and makefile changes (Don Dutile) [437423]
-xen: pv.h file modifications for compilation on xen and non xen kernels (Don Dutile) [437423]

[2.6.9-68.31]
-qla4xxx: race condition fixes with constant qla3xxx ifup/ifdown (Marcus Barrow) [430313]
-qla4xxx: Fix targets not seen on first port (Marcus Barrow) [425721]
-Fix compilation warnings coming from module.h (Vivek Goyal) [280431]
-qla4xxx: Handle multiple ports per target (Marcus Barrow) [412671]
-qla4xxx: Update driver version string to 5.01.02-d1 (Marcus Barrow) [317631]
-qla4xxx: Throttle on queue full errors (version 5.01.02-d1) (Marcus Barrow) [317631]

[2.6.9-68.30]
-Fix __call_usermodehelper wait_for_helper race condition (Dave Anderson) [438800]
-nfs: 32 bit nfs server returns eio for readdirplus request when backing file system has 32bit inodes (Peter Staubach) [438723]
-Ensure IV is in linear part of the skb to avoid BUG due to OOB access (Thomas Graf) [427246]
-Enhanced partition statistics: documentation (Jerome Marchand) [233579 310521]
-Enhanced partition statistics: Fill old partition statistics with right data (Jerome Marchand) [233579 310521]
-Enhanced partition statistics: procfs changes (Jerome Marchand) [233579 310521]
-Enhanced partition statistics: sysfs changes (Jerome Marchand) [233579 310521]
-Enhanced partition statistics: update partition statitics (Jerome Marchand) [233579 310521]
-Enhanced partition statistics: core statistics (Jerome Marchand) [233579 310521]

[2.6.9-68.29]
-Revert 'Add HP DL580 G5 to bfsort whitelist' (Vivek Goyal) [429727]
-fix unprivileged crash on x86_64 cs corruption (Jarod Wilson) [439786]
-ixgbe: Build module ixgbe CONFIG_IXGBE=m (Andy Gospodarek) [305051]
-x86_64: add /dev/msr[0-n] device files (Jason Baron) [249514]
-i386: Fix extended cpu model field being ignored (Geoff Gustafson) [439539]
-x86_64: Fix hpet bug where system hangs during reboot cycle (Geoff Gustafson) [434854]
-i386: Allow apicid to be 8 bit (Geoff Gustafson) [437821]
-ixgbe: initial support code (Andy Gospodarek) [305051]
-nfs: fix setgid handling in notify_change (Jeff Layton) [439253]
-e1000: upstream update and alternate mac address support (Andy Gospodarek) [298901]

[2.6.9-68.28]
-powernow k8: fix UP kernel to register freq driver (David Milburn) [429519]
-spec: fix summary description of largesmp kernel package (Vivek Goyal) [186606]
-qla2xxx: Avoid delay for loop ready when loop dead (Marcus Barrow) [426411]
-qla2xxx: Build qla25xx as module CONFIG_SCSI_QLA25XX=m (Marcus Barrow) [253287]
-qla2xxx: Clean up firmware dumping mechanism for ISP25xx adapter (Marcus Barrow) [253287]
-qla2xxx: Support ISP25xx adapters for 8GB/s (Marcus Barrow) [253287]
-qla2xxx: Firmware support for new 8 GB/s adapter QLE25xx (Marcus Barrow) [253287]
-qla2xxx: update 4 GB/s firmware to match 8 GB/s firmware (Marcus Barrow) [253287]
-ext3: lighten up resize transaction requirements (Eric Sandeen) [166038]
-nfs: Fix nfs_access_cache_shrinker race with umount (Peter Staubach) [433249]
-hangcheck timer: remove monotomic clock dependencies (Brian Maly) [429928]
-Fix execve returning EFBIG when running 4 GB executable (Dave Anderson) [393501]
-[NET] Fix the redirect packet of the router if the jiffies wraparound (Thomas Graf) [428934]
-bnx2: update to upstream version 1.6.9 (Andy Gospodarek) [311531 303051 310851]
-Fix race condition in proc file reading that leads to module refcnt imbalance (Neil Horman) [280431]

[2.6.9-68.27]
-infiniband: hotcpu_notifier backport (Doug Ledford) [309591]
-infiniband: Remove the unused cxgb3/core directory and files (Doug Ledford) [309591]
-infiniband: Dont set CONFIG_MLX4_CORE on ppc64 iseries (Vivek Goyal) [309591]
-infiniband: Enable various infiniband related config options (Vivek Goyal) [309591]
-infiniband: additional kernel backports needed for ppc64 (Doug Ledford) [309591]
-infiniband: update kconfig files so that setting infiniband off kills it all (Doug Ledford) [309591]
-infiniband: backport for interrupt handler changes (Doug Ledford) [309591]
-infiniband: add the genalloc backport (Doug Ledford) [309591]
-infiniband: minor backports (Doug Ledford) [309591]
-infiniband: util updates (Doug Ledford) [309591]
-infiniband: srp updates (Doug Ledford) [309591]
-infiniband: sdp updates (Doug Ledford) [309591]
-infiniband: core updates and makefile kconfig changes (Doug Ledford) [309591]
-infiniband: additional backport (Doug Ledford) [309591]
-infiniband: move vnic to qlgc_vnic (Doug Ledford) [309591]
-infiniband: ipoib updates (Doug Ledford) [309591]
-infiniband: various header config updates (Doug Ledford) [309591]
-infiniband: ehca driver update (Doug Ledford) [309591]
-infiniband: nes hardware driver update (Doug Ledford) [309591]
-infiniband: mthca driver update (Doug Ledford) [309591]
-infiniband: ipath driver update (Doug Ledford) [309591]
-infiniband: cxgb3 driver update (Doug Ledford) [309591]
-infiniband: amso1100 driver update (Doug Ledford) [309591]
-infiniband: kill off some uninitialized_var usage that breaks our kernel (Doug Ledford) [309591]
-additional kernel.h backports (Doug Ledford) [309591]
-infiniband: move a couple backports (Doug Ledford) [309591]
-infiniband: add the mlx4 core net and infiniband drivers (Doug Ledford) [309591]
-infiniband: move the vnic driver to qlgc_vnic (Doug Ledford) [309591]
-bnx2x: enable bnx2x module CONFIG_BNX2X=m (Vivek Goyal) [328001]
-Fix ext3 direct IO problem that occurs under memory pressure (Josef Bacik) [381221]
-wacom: add support to cintiq 20wsx tablets (Aristeu Rozanski) [436890]
-io_apic: fix irq race in check_timer (Brian Maly) [432405]
-cxgb3: update to driver to support ofed 1 3 (Andy Gospodarek) [253452]
-igb: update to upstream version 1.0.8-k2 (Andy Gospodarek) [298881]
-e1000e: update to latest upstream (Andy Gospodarek) [311961 432364]
-usb: Fix sporadic hangs in usb (Pete Zaitcev) [239723]
-bnx2x: initial support for bcm57710 (Andy Gospodarek) [328001]
-Fix usb stress test issue on amd sbx00 systems (Bhavana Nagendra) [435787]
-mptfusion: Fix IO failures when host reset of adapter is in progress (Chip Coldwell) [429368]
-mptfusion: Fix oops in mptctl_gettargetinfo due to null ioc raid_data piocpg3 (Chip Coldwell) [429623]
-mptfusion: update mptfusion to version 3-12-19-00 (Chip Coldwell) [308341]
-lpfc: update lpfc driver to version 8.0.16.40 (Chip Coldwell) [326931]
-aacraid: update aacraid driver to version 1.1.5-2455 (Chip Coldwell) [300021]
-aacraid: update aacraid driver to version 1.1.5-2453 (Chip Coldwell) [300021]
-megaraid: Update megaraid_sas driver to version 3.18 (Chip Coldwell) [312061]
-x86_64: fix 32-bit thread debugging (Jerome Marchand) [311881]
-arcmsr: update the arcmsr driver to version 1.20.00.15.rh (Tomas Henzl) [428801]
-e1000: disable pci-e completion timeouts on pseries (Andy Gospodarek) [231676]
-[SCSI] ibmvscsi: add slave_configure to allow device restart (Brad Peters) [364601]
-Request to demand load dm cluster logging module (Jonathan Brassow) [438834]
-nfsv4: create dedicated workqueue for handling nfs4_close_state_work (Jeff Layton) [402581]
-nfs: allow nfsv4 files open for write to invalidate caches (Jeff Layton) [359651]
-k8_edac: add option to report gart errors (Aristeu Rozanski) [232488]
-nfs: Allow RHEL4 to do READDIR on directory containing a referral (Jeff Layton) [227610]

[2.6.9-68.26]
-[SPEC] fix add call to weak modules script in spec file (Vivek Goyal) [438688]
-[s390] qdio: FCP/SCSI write IO stagnates on LPAR (Hans-Joachim Picht) [436992]
-lro: Build lro as module CONFIG_INET_LRO=m (Ed Pollard) [300201]
-ehea: driver update and modifications to sync with upstream (Ed Pollard) [300201]
-ehea: Fixes to make LRO compile in RHEL 4.7 (Ed Pollard) [300201]
-ehea: Pull LRO support from upstream (Ed Pollard) [300201]
-getrusage: fill ru_inblock and ru_oublock fields if possible (Jerome Marchand) [247285]
-io accounting: set up config_task_io_accounting (Jerome Marchand) [247285]
-io accounting: report in procfs (Jerome Marchand) [247285]
-io accounting: account for direct io (Jerome Marchand) [247285]
-io accounting: read accounting cifs fix (Jerome Marchand) [247285]
-io accounting: read accounting nfs fix (Jerome Marchand) [247285]
-io accounting: read accounting (Jerome Marchand) [247285]
-io accounting: write cancel accounting (Jerome Marchand) [247285]
-io accounting: write accounting (Jerome Marchand) [247285]
-io accounting: core statistics (Jerome Marchand) [247285]
-[PPC64] Add kernel support for storing slb entries, for cpu failure recovery (Brad Peters) [300081]
-[Power6] Extend alignment exception handler to handle new floating point load, store instructions (Brad Peters) [300071]

[2.6.9-68.25]
-alsa: fix 32 to 64 bit pcm api conversion layer (Jaroslav Kysela) [429944]
-[SPEC] Add call to weak modules script in spec file (Jon Masters) [438115]
-bonding: 802.3ad: Fix no carrier on no partner found (Vince Worthington) [437865]
-stex: update stex driver (Jeff Garzik) [251560]
-s2io: Update to driver version 2.0.25.1 (Andy Gospodarek) [298551]
-diskdump: fix diskdump to print warning message about large block_order (Takao Indoh) [219639]
-[IPV4]: Fix fragmentation with header options (Thomas Graf) [214903]
-sctp: backport new sctp receive buffer management code to rhel4 (Neil Horman) [200813]
-diskdump: Diskdump performance regression in mptfusion driver (Takao Indoh) [438027]
-[NETFILTER]: fix module to prevent deadlock via module refcounting (Neil Horman) [212922]

[2.6.9-68.24]
-Fix greyhound event based profiling support patch (Bhavana Nagendra) [437982]
-forcedeth: update to upstream version 0.61 (Andy Gospodarek) [253592]
-sata: work around sb600 sata hw errata (Jeff Garzik) [300861]
-tg3: update to upstream version 3.86 (Andy Gospodarek) [324251]
-[TCP] Fix tcp assertion where packets_out exceeds fackets_out (Thomas Graf) [296561]
-i2c_piix4: Enable i2c_piix4 module on x86_64 (Prarit Bhargava) [424541]
-Fix 64 bit dma issue on sb700 systems (Bhavana Nagendra) [434742]
-ipr: dual sas raid adds support for new pci-e ipr adapters (Brad Peters) [299101]
-ipr: dual sas raid escalates error handler failures all the way to host reset (Brad Peters) [299101]
-[XEN] Fix xen pv netfront oops during live migrate (Chris Lalancette) [435351]
-ICH10: Add relevant PCI device IDs to support ICH10 (Geoff Gustafson) [304101]
-Retry: check to see if agp is valid before reporting aperture size warnings (Brian Maly) [392771 431897]

[2.6.9-68.23]
-pci: mmconfig patches 68.22 build breakage fix (Tony Camuso) [437837]
-Add config_dm_multipath_hp to generic config (David Wysochanski) [195685]
-xen: expand vnif number per a guest domain over four (Don Dutile) [435448]
-sata_svw: update sata_svw driver to support broadcom HT1100 chipset (John Feeney) [234159]
-qla3xxx: new 4032 does not work with vlan (Marcus Barrow) [314301]
-Add greyhound event based profiling support (Bhavana Nagendra) [433524]
-Adding sb800 sata controller support (Bhavana Nagendra) [299901]
-dm-multipath: path group initialization retry support for hp hardware handler (David Wysochanski) [195685]
-dm-multipath: add path group initialization retry support to generic multipath layer (David Wysochanski) [195685]
-dm-multipath: add hp handler for HP active/passive array (David Wysochanski) [195685]
-[s390] qeth: ifenslave -c causes kernel panic with vlan and osa layer2 (Hans-Joachim Picht) [387041]
-[s390] zfcp: scsi LUNs going offline during cablepull or MC update (Hans-Joachim Picht) [207558]
-[s390] zfcp: Various driver bugfixes from upstream (Hans-Joachim Picht) [248934]
-Build PowerNow-k8 as module (Brian Maly) [234145]

[2.6.9-68.22.EL]
-xen: save restore migration of 32 bit pv guests can fail under load (Don Dutile) [431081]
-sysfs: Keep away from adding an existing dirent (Josef Bacik) [383101]
-[IA64] Avoid unnecessary tlb flushes when allocating memory (Doug Chapman) [424771]
-[PCI] pci config: remove mmconf blacklist (Tony Camuso) [250313]
-[PCI] pci config: Use PortIO to access config offsets below 256 byte (Tony Camuso) [250313]
-wacom: add support to intuos3 12x19 (Aristeu Rozanski) [278681 253088]
-wacom: add support to intuos3 12x12 (Aristeu Rozanski) [278681 253088]
-wacom: fix the maximum distance value (Aristeu Rozanski) [278681 253088]
-wacom: change cintiq interrupt handler (Aristeu Rozanski) [278681 253088]
-wacom: add support for intuos3 4x6 (Aristeu Rozanski) [278681 253088]
-wacom: use enum definitions for wacom models (Aristeu Rozanski) [278681 253088]
-neofb: avoid overwriting fb_info fields (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [430252]

[2.6.9-68.21.EL]
-skge: do not clear multicast state on link down (Andy Gospodarek) [377611]
-net: drop duplicate frames on vlan accelerated bonding interfaces (Andy Gospodarek) [295161]
-ipmi: initialize second bmc properly (Peter Martuccelli) [411041]
-diskdump: do not disregard crc error of the diskdump module (Takao Indoh) [248766]
-Make kernel build when CONFIG_HIGHMEM is not set (Jason Baron) [185202]
-Add HP DL580 G5 to bfsort whitelist (Tony Camuso) [429727]
-sched: Exiting process returns its first time_slice to wrong process (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [238034]
-Fix e820 map hole size calculations (Larry Woodman) [206113]
-[NET] bonding: add MAC based failover support to bonding driver (Brad Peters) [300031]
-[SCSI] aic7xxx: fix ahc_done check SCB_ACTIVE for tagged transactions (David Milburn) [223333]

[2.6.9-68.20.EL]
-EDAC: Add CONFIG_EDAC_I5000 option to config files (Vivek Goyal) [235936]
-Reset LEDS on dell usb keyboards (John Feeney) [225361]
-Tolapai: Report correct cpu cache info (Geoff Gustafson) [426301]
-Tolapai: sata and i2c support (Geoff Gustafson) [304131]
-Fix memory leak in alloc_disk_node (Jerome Marchand) [435892]
-jbd: Fix journal overflow issues (Josef Bacik) [183119]
-knfsd: Ratelimit remotely triggered rpc error messages (Chris Snook) [428149]
-pata_jmicron: match devices using vendor and device class only and update quirk for JMB361/3/5/6 (Aristeu Rozanski) [337671]
-cciss: Add SG_IO ioctl and fix error reporting for SG_IOCTL (Tomas Henzl) [293651]
-cciss: add init of drv->cylinders back to cciss_geometry_inquiry (Tomas Henzl) [432026]
-cciss : Modify /proc/driver/cciss entries to avoid system crash (Tomas Henzl) [432480]
-EDAC: add support to intel 5000 chipsets (Aristeu Rozanski) [235936]

[2.6.9-68.19.EL]
-edac: Add CONFIG_EDAC_I3000 option to config files (Vivek Goyal) [427799]
-cdrom: kill 'open failed' message (John Feeney) [247446]
-Insufficient range checks in fault handlers with mremap (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [428969] {CVE-2008-0007}
-Fix CDROM mounting problem when changing isos in iseries legacy (Brad Peters) [334651]
-[PPC64] xmon: Make xmon= off work on rhel 4 (Brad Peters) [426878]
-cciss: Change version number to 3.6.20-RH1 (Tomas Henzl) [426109]
-cciss: Support new SAS/SATA controllers (Tomas Henzl) [426111]
-cciss: Copyright information updated as per HP Legal (Tomas Henzl) [426110]
-cciss: Remove read_ahead and use block layer defaults instead (Tomas Henzl) [426114]
-Fix unix stream socket recv race condition (Hideo AOKI) [433685]
-[NET] Fix socket name string length returned by sys_getsockname (Doug Ledford) [434554]
-EDAC: add support to intel 3000 3010 chipsets (Aristeu Rozanski) [427799]
-Revert 's390:qdio/qeth: make sure sent skbs are freed in time' (Vivek Goyal) [381041]

[2.6.9-68.18.EL]
-nlm: fix a client side race on blocking locks (Jeff Layton) [432855]
-nlm: cleanup for blocked locks (Jeff Layton) [432855]
-[PPC] Support for cpu freq values great than 32 bit on power5/6 (Guy Streeter) [373031]
-[SCSI] fix kernel panic caused by scsi medium error (Takahiro Yasui) [242046]
-forcedeth: msi bugfix: Stop using stale irq number (Andy Gospodarek) [359231]
-ide: __ide_end_request check for empty list before dequeuing request (David Milburn) [426279]
-redhat will not ipl with more than 64 procs (Scott Moser) [248428]
-[MOXA] buffer overflow in moxa driver (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [423141] {CVE-2005-0504}
-s390: cio: collection of update patches (Hans-Joachim Picht) [380931]
-s390:qdio/qeth: make sure sent skbs are freed in time (Hans-Joachim Picht) [381041]
-s390: qeth: tcpdump does not work with osa Layer2 and VLAN enabled (Hans-Joachim Picht) [379031]
-make concurrent proc net dev reads return sane stats for bonds (Chris Snook) [430576]

[2.6.9-68.17.EL]
-Missing sb600 sb700 40 pin ide cable support (Bhavana Nagendra) [431440]
-SB700 contains two ide channels (Bhavana Nagendra) [335361]
-smbus: AMD ATI SB600 700 800 use same smbus controller devid (Bhavana Nagendra) [252287]
-libata: un-blacklist hitachi drives to enable NCQ (David Milburn) [430293]
-libata: sata_nv may send commands with duplicate tags (David Milburn) [430293]
-add mutex_destroy() definition (Jason Baron) [233234]
-sunrpc: print unsigned integers in stats (Jeff Layton) [401861]
-nfsd: don t try to cache reply to nfsv2 readdir (Jeff Layton) [430946]
-sunrpc: make sure portmap calls are always soft RPC tasks (Jeff Layton) [248787]
-[NET] link_watch: always schedule urgent events (Don Dutile) [429930]
-nfs: don t expose internal readdir errors to userspace (Jeff Layton) [354371]
-nfs4: Make sure nfs4 mounts are interruptable when intr is specified (Jeff Layton) [151085]

[2.6.9-68.16.EL]
-[XEN] Fix xen pv oops when mmaping prot_none during save restore (Chris Lalancette) [311431]
-[NET] link_watch: handle jiffies wraparound (Vince Worthington) [433698]
-IA64: user data corruption on misaligned access with certain fp instructions (Luming Yu) [430918]
-xen: xenbus suspend_mutex remains locked after transaction failure (Don Dutile) [250381]
-hotplug: acpiphp: avoid acpiphp cannot get bridge info pci hotplug failure (Konrad Rzeszutek) [287741]
-[COREDUMP] add MMF_DUMP_ELF_HEADERS flag support (Hideo AOKI) [235742]
-[COREDUMP]: Documentation for coredump filter (Hideo AOKI) [235742]
-[COREDUMP] elf: add coredump filtering feature (Hideo AOKI) [235742]
-[COREDUMP]: add an interface for coredump filter (Hideo AOKI) [235742]
-kswapd: kswapd does not use lower_zone_protection value properly, resulting in oomkill (Larry Woodman) [358731]

[2.6.9-68.15.EL]
-nfs: Introduce nfs.enable_ino64 command line parameter to enable/disable 32bit inode numbers (Peter Staubach) [213518]
-nfs: 32 bit nfs client does not handle 64 inodes correctly. Server side changes. (Peter Staubach) [213518]
-nfs: 32 bit nfs client does not handle 64 inodes correctly. Client side change (Peter Staubach) [213518]
-xen: rapid block device plug unplug leads to kernel crash and or soft lockup (Don Dutile) [426031]
-[NET] make tcp_input_metrics get minimum rto via tcp_rto_min (Anton Arapov) [427204]
-acpiphp: differentiate between slot empty and slot power off (Prarit Bhargava) [248489]
-Fix IPI interrupt storm on IA64 (Prarit Bhargava) [359671]
-smbfs: Fix calculation of size parameter in smb_receive (Jeff Layton) [355141]
-smbfs: fix more warnings and errors with debug builds (Jeff Layton) [355141]
-smbfs: Fix debug logging only compilation error (Jeff Layton) [355141]
-smbfs: smbfs readdir vs signal fix (Jeff Layton) [355141]
-smbfs: Fix names_cache memory leak (Jeff Layton) [355141]
-smbfs: smb_file_open retval fix (Jeff Layton) [355141]
-smbfs: Turn null dereference into BUG() (Jeff Layton) [355141]
-smbfs: fix data corruption in smb_proc_setattr_unix (Jeff Layton) [355141]

[2.6.9-68.14.EL]
-epoll_wait with negative timeout value results in bogus printk (Peter Staubach) [278961]
-proc: add /proc//limits (Neil Horman) [207340]
-ACPI PCIE hotplug fails due to non receipt of acpi events (Konrad Rzeszutek) [252262]
-Powernow-k8: Get rid of unnecessary error messages with synchronized p state transitions (Konrad Rzeszutek) [276771]
-ide : handle ide removeable drives properly (Josef Bacik) [249061]
-[AIO] account for io wait properly (Jeff Moyer) [220902]
-nfs:for nfs4_create_exclusive, reset any fields set in attrmask (Jeff Layton) [196180]
-nfs: set attrmask correctly on nfs4_create_exclusive reply (Jeff Layton) [196180]
-Implement udp_poll to reduce likelyhood of false positive return from select() (Neil Horman) [212321]

[2.6.9-68.13.EL]
-sunrpc: dont retry portmap query forever if it is not responding (Jeff Layton) [204309]
-nfs: Discard pagecache data for dirs on denty_iput (Jeff Layton) [364361]
-Fix /proc/cpuinfo giving wrong model number information (John Feeney) [313631]
-nfs: fix ATTR_KILL_S*ID handling on NFS (Jeff Layton) [225557]
-[NET] kernel needs to support TCP_RTO_MIN (Anton Arapov) [251240]

[2.6.9-68.12.EL]
-eHEA: add poll_controller support to eHEA to support netdump and netconsole (Neil Horman) [249041]
-Display count of pagecache pages in show_mem output (Larry Woodman) [428014]
-Prevent long delay before OOM killer launches (Larry Woodman) [252939]
-x86_64: Prevent iounmap from sleeping with a spinlock held (Larry Woodman) [361931]
-i8042: remove polling timer support (David Milburn) [340561]
-hfs: Do not mount the fs if hfs can t find the root inode (Josef Bacik) [223514]

[2.6.9-68.11.EL]
-cifs: update changes file and version string (Jeff Layton) [427544]
-cifs: fix endian conversion problem in posix mkdir (Jeff Layton) [427544]
-cifs: fix potential data corruption when writing out cached dirty pages (Jeff Layton) [427544]
-cifs: when mount helper missing fix slash wrong direction in share (Jeff Layton) [427544]
-cifs: fix error message about packet signing (Jeff Layton) [427544]
-cifs: fix cifsd to shut down when signing fails during mount (Jeff Layton) [427544]
-cifs: reduce chance of list corruption in find_writable_file (Jeff Layton) [427544]
-cifs: fix memory leak in statfs to very old servers (Jeff Layton) [427544]
-cifs: fix buffer overflow if server sends corrupt response to small request (Jeff Layton) [372981] {CVE-2007-5904}
-cifs: log better errors on failed mounts (Jeff Layton) [427544]
-cifs: fix oops on second mount to same server when null auth is used (Jeff Layton) [427544]
-cifs: fix spurious reconnect on 2nd peek from read of SMB length (Jeff Layton) [427544]
-cifs: fix bad handling of EAGAIN error on kernel_recvmsg in cifs_demultiplex_thread (Jeff Layton) [427544]
-cifs: have older kernels clean out pages list in cifs_readpages (Jeff Layton) [427544]
-cifs: add inline cifs_filemap_write_and_wait for older kernels (Jeff Layton) [427544]
-cifs: add mutex_lock and mutex_unlock definitions (Jeff Layton) [427544]
-cifs: account for change of kmem_cache_t to struct kmem_cache (Jeff Layton) [427544]
-cifs: remove duplicate kzalloc definition (Jeff Layton) [427544]
-cifs: Import cifs stock version 1.50c (Jeff Layton) [427544]
-audit: break execve records into smaller parts (Eric Paris) [427532] {CVE-2008-0004}
-eHEA: Fix kernel panic on DLPAR remove of eHEA (real fix) (Scott Moser) [253765]
-Revert 'check to see if agp is valid before reporting aperture size warnings' (Vivek Goyal) [392771]

[2.6.9-68.10.EL]
-s390: qeth: discard inbound packets with unknown header id (Hans-Joachim Picht) [350871]
-s390: qeth: hipersockets layer-3 interface to drop non-IP packets (Hans-Joachim Picht) [380961]
-check to see if agp is valid before reporting aperture size warnings (Brian Maly) [392771]
-xen: local domu to domu ssh broken when firewall enabled (Don Dutile) [414131]
-nfs: multithreaded file lock/unlock issues over NFS (Sachin Prabhu) [346331]
-Dont truncate /proc/PID/environ at 4096 characters (Anton Arapov) [254037]

[2.6.9-68.9.EL]
-udf: fix possible leakage of blocks (Eric Sandeen) [202765]
-udf: fix possible udf data corruption (Eric Sandeen) [202765]
-udf: support files larger than 1g (Eric Sandeen) [202765]
-udf: add assertions in udf_discard_prealloc (Eric Sandeen) [202765]
-udf: use get_bh instead of directly accessing b_count (Eric Sandeen) [202765]
-udf: introduce struct extent_position (Eric Sandeen) [202765]
-udf: use sector_t and loff_t for file offsets (Eric Sandeen) [202765]
-udf: fix possible udf deadlock and memory corruption (Eric Sandeen) [202765]
-udf: deadlock on unmount fix (Eric Sandeen) [202765]
-udf: fix reservation discarding (Eric Sandeen) [202765]
-nfs: Fix nfs read performance regression. Introduce a new tunable. (Larry Woodman) [396081]
-nfs: High vm pagecache reclaim latency on systems with large highmem to lowmem ratio fix (Larry Woodman) [371191]
-Do not mmap a page at address zero without MAP_FIXED (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [360281]

[2.6.9-68.8.EL]
-Fix unserialized task->files updation (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [250799]
-nfs: fix redundant and incorrect protocol for nfs4 in /proc/mounts (Jeff Layton) [171712]
-psmouse: Add support for cortps protocol (Aristeu Rozanski) [221467]
-Potential deadlock in DM mirror code fix (Jonathan Brassow) [247879]
-SIGKILL not respected under special circumstances fix (Michal Schmidt) [253665]
-ide: Introduce command line option to disable ide drivers (Gerd Hoffmann) [270661]
-networking: kernel oopses when multicasting with connection oriented socket (Anton Arapov) [250842]

[2.6.9-68.7]
-Fix possible NULL pointer dereference inside of strncmp() if of_get_property() failed (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [396811]
-fix sys_waitid() hang (Jerome Marchand) [382191] {CVE-2007-5500}
-dm mirror: fix pvmove causes kernel panic (Milan Broz) [179201]
-fix possible filesystem corruption (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [428795] {CVE-2008-0001}

[2.6.9-68.6]
-add support for Realtek RTL8111/8168 PCI-Express NIC (Ivan Vecera) [251383]
-ISDN: fix isdn_net_setcfg() vulnerability (Aristeu Rozanski) [392131] {CVE-2007-6063}
-fix panic caused by set_mempolicy with MPOL_BIND (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [293211] {CVE-2007-4130}
-fix core dump file permissions (Don Howard) [396981] {CVE-2007-6206}
-I4L: fix isdn_ioctl memory issue (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [425161] {CVE-2007-6151}
-fix dput after mntput bugs (Josef Bacik) [403361]
-fix xenbus has use-after-free (Don Dutile) [249727]
-acpiphp: Examine slots below P2P bridges (Prarit Bhargava) [415981]

[2.6.9-68.5]
-add tick divider capability (Chris Lalancette) [248488]

[2.6.9-68.4]
-do not call set_page_dirty_lock() on compound pages (Luming Yu) [248954 252400]
-disables irqs in core sysrq code (Prarit Bhargava) [253573]
-ipv6: fix inet6_dev refcnt leak (Neil Horman) [252222]
-i386: ensure compressed diskdump header contains correct panic cpu (Dave Anderson) [309081]
-fix up kabi for: enhance criteria for dead peer detection in ip_conntrack (Neil Horman)

[2.6.9-68.3]
-enhance criteria for dead peer detection in ip_conntrack (Neil Horman) [205966]
-i386/x86_64 segment register access update (Peter Zijlstra) [414251]
-Remove duplicated FAKE_STACK_FRAME macro (Peter Zijlstra) [414261]
-add new CIFS Kconfig options (Jeff Layton) [282591]
-dm: fix bd_mount_sem counter corruption (Milan Broz) [377351]
-dm: fix panic on shrinking device size (Milan Broz) [360311]
-dm crypt: fix oops on device removal (Milan Broz) [377371]

[2.6.9-68.2]
-add missing dput() in do_lookup() error case (Eric Sandeen) [363471]
-fix diskdump performance regression on mpt fustion driver (Takao Indoh) [284991]
-add missing pskb_may_pull in icmp_filter (Jerome Marchand) [356501]
-Fix incorrect logic in AMD NMI code (Prarit Bhargava) [387451]
-Get rid of Tuxs O_ATOMICLOOKUP (Michal Schmidt) [358681]
-lcs: After channel failure do not drive normal shutdown sequence (Hans-Joachim Picht) [354141]

[2.6.9-68.1]
-add back: eliminate excessive latency when writing to a large file
-add back: setting better values for dirty limits
-serial: assert DTR for serial console devices (Michal Schmidt) [244248]
-bonding: only do ipv6 addrconf on master bond devices (Vince Worthington) [249631]
-lsm: reduce noise during security_register (Ivan Vecera) [249404]
-selinux: quiet complaints when using OpenAFS (Eric Paris) [239628]
-Fix for NFS attribute timeout handling (Fabio Leite) [247905]
-tty: set pending_signal() when returning -ERESTARTSYS (Aristeu Rozanski) [245343]
-ieee80211 off-by-two integer underflow (Anton Arapov) [346381] {CVE-2007-4997}
-fix bad schedule_timeout() call causing excessive delay (Jonathan Brassow) [381081]
-do not return zero in mmap (Rik van Riel) [360281]

[2.6.9-68]
-revert: eliminate excessive latency when writing to a large file
-revert: setting better values for dirty limits


Related CVEs


CVE-2008-2812
CVE-2006-4145

Updated Packages


Release/ArchitectureFilenameMD5sumSuperseded By Advisory
Oracle Linux 4 (i386) kernel-2.6.9-78.EL.src.rpmdb74d9287cb1b1986104e7e8d01d76fbELBA-2011-1796
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.src.rpmf5fd449a2c1097b75bac0d693ff0b91f-
kernel-2.6.9-78.EL.i686.rpm69047c0d3911ab54e8d739a4ff41d3a2ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.EL.i686.rpm34f50ed800b19062e3a06124777e86b4ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-doc-2.6.9-78.EL.noarch.rpmf163e0d782b637d72bb96f32132ffaf1ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-78.EL.i686.rpm9b4564312214f52bac6e184a29bf31b5ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-78.EL.i686.rpma74e5090f02530c69859b13cc5e79f56ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.EL.i686.rpm436cc3bd68930209d8c65d3a54912a5aELBA-2011-1796
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-78.EL.i686.rpm5ee719e0e2c726af34fe973c885a543dELBA-2011-1796
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-78.EL.i686.rpma09e094905b148ea0f932cd92d1148a4ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-78.EL.i686.rpm200948f0f1cc5b69de806d29479bdfb9ELBA-2011-1796
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm8fefa6e57c885b664a66e6b7b8684da8-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.ELhugemem-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm11b2b64004dcd72c2a43e0308ceb357e-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.ELsmp-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm2747269b8333334ffd4f85c0bb216928-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.ELxenU-2.0.5-1.el4.i686.rpm479ff41dd7d474e835ab959ab6c94201-
Oracle Linux 4 (ia64) kernel-2.6.9-78.EL.src.rpmdb74d9287cb1b1986104e7e8d01d76fbELBA-2011-1796
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.src.rpmf5fd449a2c1097b75bac0d693ff0b91f-
kernel-2.6.9-78.EL.ia64.rpmfd5680b39a0b0b8b4785f8ba8249c381ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.EL.ia64.rpme27ad434e9de48461704b1d67d7d8680ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-doc-2.6.9-78.EL.noarch.rpmf163e0d782b637d72bb96f32132ffaf1ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-78.EL.ia64.rpm065f430ec41f9698e2e0d5e2641a5a95ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-78.EL.ia64.rpm9bb1c2782b8bc74f79541235cabf229dELBA-2011-1796
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.ia64.rpm40d3043f037af8dd4df4d8a19922fe29-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.ELlargesmp-2.0.5-1.el4.ia64.rpm049a8339529693cd1ef46e04b824cdeb-
Oracle Linux 4 (x86_64) kernel-2.6.9-78.EL.src.rpmdb74d9287cb1b1986104e7e8d01d76fbELBA-2011-1796
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.src.rpmf5fd449a2c1097b75bac0d693ff0b91f-
kernel-2.6.9-78.EL.x86_64.rpmd7bb99d4460b08e3a704eca7c54ef564ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.EL.x86_64.rpm45c564f94e90fce574e36eeb5b384cf9ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-doc-2.6.9-78.EL.noarch.rpmf163e0d782b637d72bb96f32132ffaf1ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-78.EL.x86_64.rpm9f146cd65d0690ce1bd7d839bde99855ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-78.EL.x86_64.rpmf8403b9e76b2c6527dac73fd8c205067ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-smp-2.6.9-78.EL.x86_64.rpm76f1ffaae932f07698c5cc6c57cec582ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-78.EL.x86_64.rpme256460fc1d193141afc035982d40325ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-xenU-2.6.9-78.EL.x86_64.rpm154d2c4886b2cadd1baacdcf70c8db40ELBA-2011-1796
kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-78.EL.x86_64.rpm045c7d35a00132479252775c838a1035ELBA-2011-1796
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.EL-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm918b7c5410f181396033ed7878381249-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.ELlargesmp-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpmbbe23a1ba4b6b45c4aa154f06449ea54-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.ELsmp-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpm4443e895cd919298b4ca82d7f9bf4d9b-
oracleasm-2.6.9-78.ELxenU-2.0.5-1.el4.x86_64.rpme8479af66762eec680aeeaff63e98a3c-



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