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kernel security and bug fix update

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[2.6.9-78.0.8.0.1.EL] - fix entropy flag in bnx2 driver to generate entropy pool (John Sobecki) [orabug 5931647] - fix skb alignment that was causing sendto() to fail with EFAULT (Olaf Kirch) [orabug 6845794] - fix enomem due to larger mtu size page alloc (Zach Brown) [orabug 5486128] - fix per_cpu() api bug_on with rds (Zach Brown) [orabug 5760648] - backout patch sysrq-b that queues upto keventd thread (Guru Anbalagane) [orabug 6125546] - netrx/netpoll race avoidance (Tina Yang) [orabug 6143381] - fix guest spinning in xen (Herbert van den Bergh) [orabug 7004010] - fix serial port lock recursion (Herbert van den Bergh) [orabug 6761872] - [XEN] Fix elf_core_dump (Tina Yang) [orabug 6995928] - fix in nfs_attribute_timeout() (Trond Myklebust) [orabug 7378108] - [vm] Fix hang in shrink_zone for direct reclaim threads under heavy swapping load condition (John Sobecki,Chris Mason) [orabug 6086839] - use lfence instead of cpuid instruction to implement memory barriers (Herbert van den Bergh) [orabug 7452412] - add netpoll support to xen netfront (Tina Yang) [orabz 7261] [2.6.9-78.0.8] -pwc: fix kernel pwc driver dos (Eugene Teo) [308501 308511] {CVE-2007-5093} -[s390] prevent ptrace padding area read write in 31 bit mode (Jarod Wilson) [437932 438148] {CVE-2008-1514} -ext[234]: avoid printk floods in the face of directory corruption (Eric Sandeen) [459598 459599] {CVE-2008-3528} -kernel: open call allows setgid bit when user is not in new file's group (Eugene Teo) [463685 463686] {CVE-2008-4210} -cifs: fix o_append on directio mounts (Jeff Layton) [464494 461005] -ixgbe: remove device id for unsupported device (Andy Gospodarek) [465735 456533] -aacraid: remove quirk aac_quirk_scsi_32 for some controllers (Tomas Henzl) [468151 457552] -mptfusion: mpt causes panic if a raid 1 is configured (Tomas Henzl) [465265 469236] -cpufreq: support for affected_cpus (Brian Maly) [469647 465366] [2.6.9-78.0.7] -scsi: fix oops when removing devices from sym driver (Mike Christie) [455770 441545] -netdump: fix up several netdump issues (Neil Horman) [466113 461014] -mptfusion: fix outputting large amount of log message when issuing host reset (Tomas Henzl) [466217 455451] [2.6.9-78.0.6] -fix kernel snd_seq_oss_synth_make_info leak (Eugene Teo) [457998 457999] {CVE-2008-3272} -dio: zero struct dio with kzalloc instead of manually (Eugene Teo) [461089 461090] {CVE-2007-6716} -ext3: fix ext3 block accounting (Josef Bacik) [464496 450900] -fix regression in /proc/self/mem (Anton Arapov) [464747 460106] -allocate usb and scsi hba structs together (Pete Zaitcev) [465232 441552] -Fix do_wait() vs exec() race (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [466214 452706]


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