Oracle Enterprise Linux 4.8 kernel security and bug fix update

[2.6.9-89]
-fix regression in cxgb3 driver spin_lock usage (Andy Gospodarek) [495557]
-cxgb3: fixup possible workqueue deadlocks (Andy Gospodarek) [495558]
-e1000: network driver doesn t reset nic during shutdown and prevents pxe reloads (George Beshers) [465620]
-cxgb3: fix msix bringup so we dont leak vectors on failed init (Doug Ledford) [495556]
-e1000e: support for 82583 and new 82574LA (Andy Gospodarek) [452287]
-igb: support for dual port 82576 (Andy Gospodarek) [452289]
-dm crypt: memory corruption when invalid mapping parameters provided (Milan Broz) [495673]
-Revert ‘fix race condition in input.c’ (Vivek Goyal) [491940]
-Revert ‘more fixes for fix race condition in input.c’ (Vivek Goyal) [491940]
[2.6.9-88]
-cpu p-state limits (via acpi_ppc) ignored by os (Stanislaw Gruszka) [490531]
-add some missing bits to the chelsio cxgb3 driver (Doug Ledford) [454557]
-net: ipv6: mcast: fix joining all node multicast group on device initialization (Jiri Pirko) [494463]
-exit_notify: kill the wrong capable check (Oleg Nesterov) [494269]
-e1000e: reset chip when taking down interface (Andy Gospodarek) [452287]
-kernel: random32: seeding improvement (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [458022]
-nfsv4: client crashes when doing a lookup on files with long names (Sachin S. Prabhu) [493939]
[2.6.9-87]
-fix CLONE_PARENT and parent_exec_id interaction (Don Howard) [479962] {CVE-2009-0028}
-qla2xxx: remove sysfs entry for nvram (Marcus Barrow) [476704]
-mce: do not clear status registers in fatal conditions (Aristeu Rozanski) [489695]
-nehalem ex support (John Villalovos) [491338]
-cciss: export device model and vendor info through sysfs (Tomas Henzl) [490187]
-cciss: kernel thread to detect config changes on the MSA2012 (Tomas Henzl) [490187]
-cciss: cleanup redundant code (Tomas Henzl) [490187]
-cciss: changes in config functions (Tomas Henzl) [490187]
-x86_64: syscall_audit: fix 32/64 syscall hole (Jerome Marchand) [488000] {CVE-2009-0834}
-x86_64: backport is_compat_task (Jerome Marchand) [488000] {CVE-2009-0834}
[2.6.9-86]
-qla2xxx: reduce BUS_BUSY error returns (Marcus Barrow) [490744]
-scsi: modify scsi layer to retry DID_ERROR (Marcus Barrow) [490744]
-tg3: add in driver phy support for 5785 (Andy Gospodarek) [452925]
-e1000: fix false link detection (Michal Schmidt) [489960]
-qla2xxx: fix flash program: fix read/write version update issues (Marcus Barrow) [491784]
-qla2xxx: fix loop resets and HBA traversal (Marcus Barrow) [491784]
-qla2xxx: 8 gb/s firmware update for blade servers 4.06.01 => 4.04.09 (Marcus Barrow) [492156]
-qla2xxx: 4 gb/s firmware update for blade servers 4.06.01 => 4.04.09 (Marcus Barrow) [492156]
-bnx2x: initialization and ia64 fixes (Andy Gospodarek) [453305]
-hfs: fix hfs mount memory leak (Dave Anderson) [479607]
-fix warn in __writeback_single_inode (Josef Bacik) [458955]
-ide: increase the timeout in wait_drive_not_busy (Prarit Bhargava) [456078]
-more fixes for fix race condition in input.c (James Paradis) [491940]
[2.6.9-85]
-md: pass down bio_rw_sync in raid 1,10 (Dave Maley) [467829]
-fix the tsc clocksource when using the tick divider (Chris Lalancette) [491154]
-bonding: give full arp monitoring cycle to slaves (Jiri Pirko) [489362]
-megaraid: fix a bug in reset handler (Tomas Henzl) [481662]
-dm: check that the log bitmap will fit within the log device (Milan Broz) [490021]
[2.6.9-84]
-cciss: disable dma refetch on p600 (Tomas Henzl) [454643]
-cciss: remove unused variable (Tomas Henzl) [454643]
-cciss: read config table to determine max_commands (Tomas Henzl) [454643]
-cciss: Updated cciss driver to 2.6.20.RH2, update controller names and version (Tomas Henzl) [454643]
-ext3: ext3_symlink should use gfp_nofs allocations inside (Flavio Leitner) [489768]
-net: fix dst_entry leak (Neil Horman) [489300]
-nmi watchdog: generate load on all cpus while testing if the watchdog works (Aristeu Rozanski) [488018]
-qla4xxx: properly support async pdu messages (Marcus Barrow) [485092]
[2.6.9-83]
-arp: add uresolved_discards counter (Neil Horman) [453173]
-xen: fix crash when modprobe xen-vnif in a kvm guest (Chris Lalancette) [485421]
-Re-apply: fix kernel crash in sunrpc::cache_clean (Peter Staubach) [278291]
-r8169: don t update statistics counters when interface is down (Ivan Vecera) [440467]
-fix panic when loading pciehp module (Prarit Bhargava) [487385]
-hid: fix return code in hid_probe (Aristeu Rozanski) [453171]
-ixgbe: make sure devices can netdump (Andy Gospodarek) [484376]
-igb: make sure devices can netdump (Andy Gospodarek) [484376]
-igb: prevent deadlock while executing netdump (Andy Gospodarek) [435886]
-bnx2: fix driver update that broke netdump (Andy Gospodarek) [484667]
-bug fix for hdmi audio (Bhavana Nagendra) [459222]
-usb: workaround for usb hang in sb600/sb700 (Pete Zaitcev) [472789]
-netpoll: fix up device quota in netpoll prior to calling driver poll method (Neil Horman) [481207]
-fix leap second hang (Prarit Bhargava) [479764]
[2.6.9-82]
-kernel: fix kernel memory disclosure in getsockopt() with option SO_BSDCOMPAT (Don Howard) [486516] {CVE-2009-0676}
-e1000: move around config for es2lan (Andy Gospodarek) [473258]
-dm: fix more random snapshot crashes and corruption (Mikulas Patocka) [484319]
-dm: random snapshot crashes and corruption (Mikulas Patocka) [484319]
-mptfusion: remove check for type disk (Tomas Henzl) [465514]
-scsi: remove wrong lock from scsi layer (Tomas Henzl) [483191]
-ipv6: fix link local connect hang (Neil Horman) [483619]
-improve udp port randomization (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [480137]
-e1000: test for unusable msi (Andy Gospodarek) [482822]
-md: crash with partially succeeded request (Mikulas Patocka) [472796]
-nfs: remove bogus lock if signalled case (Bryn M. Reeves) [456285] {CVE-2008-4307}
-amd k6 doesnt support mce (Prarit Bhargava) [479910]
-Revert ‘sunrpc: fix kernel crash in sunrpc cache_clean’ (Vivek Goyal) [479728 278291]
[2.6.9-81]
-virtio_net: let virtio_net change the mtu (Chris Lalancette) [483535]
-fix a buffer overflow vulnerability with del_rbu driver (Don Howard) [482940] {CVE-2009-0322}
-net: backport of dscp functionality (Thomas Graf) [484398]
-netxen critical fixes (Tony Camuso) [458863]
-check futex timespec validity (Jerome Marchand) [472557]
-cifs: replace missing else in cifs_open_inode_helper (Jeff Layton) [484261]
-libata: ahci: Withdraw IGN_SERR_INTERNAL for SB800 SATA (David Milburn) [480395]
-sd: Fix handling of NO_SENSE check condition (Rob Evers) [480666]
-security: introduce missing kfree (Jiri Pirko) [480596] {CVE-2009-0031}
-libata: fix removing adding hdd thru proc (David Milburn) [329201]
-md: fix snapshot data corruption (Mikulas Patocka) [175830]
[2.6.9-80]
-evdev: use kref in order to call evdev_free only after all closes and disconnect (Mauro Carvalho Chehab) [460457]
-evdev: avoid a race condition between open and disconnect (Mauro Carvalho Chehab) [460457]
-evdev: simplify close disconnect code (Mauro Carvalho Chehab) [460457]
-evdev: converts open close mutex into static (Mauro Carvalho Chehab) [460457]
-evdev: adds memory barriers protect evdev (Mauro Carvalho Chehab) [460457]
-mptfusion: limit dma addresses to 32bit for devices with 106E B1 chip (Tomas Henzl) [480158]
-e1000: add parameter to set transmit descriptor size (Andy Gospodarek) [334411]
-e1000e: add reboot notifier so wol will work (Andy Gospodarek) [432364]
-net: fix ip tunnel can not be bound to another device (Michal Schmidt) [437410]
-Revert ‘qla2xxx: more fix flash for isp25xx and scheduling’ (Vivek Goyal) [476704]
-Revert ‘identify pm timer calibration issues during boot’ (Vivek Goyal) [456935]
[2.6.9-79]
-add new AMD HDMI audio device pci id (Joachim Deguara) [459222]
-ofed: remove lro bits from ofed 1.4 update (Doug Ledford) [454557 478687]
-config: ofed 1.4: disable MLX4 ethernet on iSeries (Doug Ledford) [454557 478687]
-config: ofed 1.4: only build ipath on x86_64 (Doug Ledford) [454557 478687]
-config: disable ehca driver to ensure ofed 1.4 builds on ppc64 (Doug Ledford) [454557 478687]
-fix deadlock between mmap munmap and jbd (Josef Bacik) [439548]
-enable entropy generation from e1000 and bnx2 network cards (Ivan Vecera) [439920]
-netpoll: disable bottom halvees during napi poll (Neil Horman) [477945]
-ofed 1.4 update (Doug Ledford) [454557 478687]
-config: config file changes for ofed 1.4 update (Doug Ledford) [454557 478687]
-[s390] zfcp: provide support for npiv (Hans-Joachim Picht) [249775]