port Red Hat bug 472572: HVM crash in net/core/dev.c during boot [orabug 7653948]
The following Red Hat patches were ported from the source RPM at: http://people.redhat.com/vgoyal/rhel4/SRPMS.kernel/kernel-2.6.9-78.22.EL.src.rpm
linux-2.6.9-xen-fix-netfront-mem-leak.patch
linux-2.6.9-xen-xen-vnif-stops-working-on-reception-of-duplicat.patch
linux-2.6.9-xen-guest-will-crash-if-rtl8139-nic-is-only-one-spe.patch
fix kernel null dereference in ap_suspend() during migration [orabug 7635625]
Ported from the el5u2 xenpv-0.1-9.0.1.el5 patch
ovs-bugz7262-fix-migration-hang-due-to-write-lock-starvation.patch.
In el5u2, the fix is to the xenpv driver. For el4u7, the xenpv driver
was moved into the kernel.
port el4u6 xenpv patch (orabug 7442030) for live migration hang
[orabug 7458244]
[xen]: port el5u2 patch that allows 64-bit PVHVM guest to boot with 32-bit
dom0 [orabug 7452107]
[mm] update shrink_zone patch to allow 100% swap utilization (John Sobecki,
Chris Mason, Chuck Anderson, Dave McCracken) [orabug 7566319,6086839]
[nfs] update fix for attribute caching when using actimeo=0 (Chuck Lever,
John Sobecki) [ORABUG 7131141,7156607,7388056] [RHBZ 446083,476726]
[kernel] backport report_lost_ticks patch from EL5.2 (John Sobecki)
[orabug 6110605]
[2.6.9-78.0.13]
-net: fix unix socket panic patch missing hunk (Neil Horman) [473267 473268] {CVE-2008-5300}
[2.6.9-78.0.12]
-revert: fix race between poll_napi and net_rx_action (Andy Gospodarek) [475970 463815]
[2.6.9-78.0.11]
-net: fix unix socket panic patch regression (Neil Horman) [470433 470434 473267 473268] {CVE-2008-5029 CVE-2008-5300}
-net: fix race between poll_napi and net_rx_action (Andy Gospodarek) [475970 463815]
-kernel: watchdog: fix buffer_underflow bug (Eugene Teo) [475738 475739]
-xen: fix lost packets when live migrating (Don Dutile) [469891 460874]
-xen: remove /proc/xen from fv and bare metal kernels (Don Dutile) [476534 460984]
[2.6.9-78.0.10]
-fix cpuspeed not working on intel based servers (Tony Camuso) [458156 440267]
-fix regression in cpuspeed (Prarit Bhargava) [458156 440267]
-cpuspeed: fix transition of p-states (Tony Camuso) [458156 440267]
-net: fix unix socket panic (Neil Horman) [470433 470434] {CVE-2008-5029}
-hfsplus: fix buffer overflow with a corrupted image (Anton Arapov) [469635 469636] {CVE-2008-4933}
-hfsplus: check read_mapping_page return value (Anton Arapov) [469642 469643] {CVE-2008-4934}
-hfs: fix namelength memory corruption (Anton Arapov) [470770 470771] {CVE-2008-5025}
-add range_is_allowed check to mmap_mem (Eugene Teo) [460862 460859]
-fix add range_is_allowed check regression (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [460862 460859]
[2.6.9-78.0.9]
-atkbd: cancel delayed work before freeing its structure (Jiri Pirko) [461239 461240]
-atkbd: delay executing of led switching request (Jiri Pirko) [461239 461240]
-kernel: fix copy_user on x86_64 for read of < 8 bytes (Larry Woodman) [471015 453053]
-fix diskdump failure when numa is on (Takao Indoh) [470034 457736]
-ipv4: fix byte value boundary check in ip_getsockopt (Jiri Pirko) [470196 462741]
-fix linux kernel local filesystem dos (Eugene Teo) [457863 457864] {CVE-2008-3275}
-netpoll: play nicely with bonding (Andy Gospodarek) [471391 248374]
-sched: fix isolcpus vs balance bug (Peter Zijlstra) [471222 461156]