kernel security and bug fix update

[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]