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HistoryJan 18, 2011 - 12:00 a.m.

kernel security and bug fix update

2011-01-1800:00:00
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[2.6.9-89.35.1.0.1.EL]

  • [XEN] fix cpu hotplug crash (Joe Jin) [orabug 7521308]
  • [XEN] Bring up vcpus before khelper init (Joe Jin) [orabug 7521308]
  • [XEN] flush the tlb cache immediately (Dave McCracken, Scott Shi) [orabug 9138767]
  • 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]
  • backout patch sysrq-b that queues upto keventd thread (Guru Anbalagane)
    [orabug 6125546]
  • netrx/netpoll race avoidance (Tina Yang) [orabug 6143381]
  • [XEN] Fix elf_core_dump (Tina Yang) [orabug 6995928]
  • 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]
  • [xen] execshield: fix endless GPF fault loop (Stephen Tweedie)
    [orabug 7175395]
  • [xen]: port el5u2 patch that allows 64-bit PVHVM guest to boot with 32-bit
    dom0 [orabug 7452107] xenstore
  • [mm] update shrink_zone patch to allow 100% swap utilization (John Sobecki,
    Chris Mason, Chuck Anderson, Dave McCracken) [orabug 7566319,6086839]
  • [kernel] backport report_lost_ticks patch from EL5.2 (John Sobecki)
    [orabug 6110605]
  • [xen] fix for hung JVM thread after #GPF [orabug 7916406] (Chuck Anderson)
  • port EL5U3 patch to adjust totalhigh_pages in the balloon driver
    [orabug 8300888]
  • check to see if hypervisor supports memory reservation change (Chuck Anderson) [orabug7556514]
  • [XEN] use hypercall to fixmap pte updates (Mukesh Rathor) [orabug 8433329]
  • fix oops in nlmclnt_mark_reclaim (Trond Myklebust) [orabug 8568878]
  • [x86_64] Allowed machine_reboot running on boot_cpu (Joe Jin) [orabug 8425237]
  • FP register state is corrupted during the handling a SIGSEGV (Chuck Anderson)
    [orabug 7708133]
  • [x86_64]: fix x86_64 largesmp kernel reboot hang (Joe Jin) [orabug bug9126592]
  • [nfs]: fix file attribute caching (Chuck Lever, Herbert van den Bergh)
    [orabug 8449921]
  • [mm] revert patch #2042 (John Sobecki) [orabug 8895251]
  • [x86_64] Add compat32 support for readahead and fadvise64 (John Haxby)
    [orabug 9458826]
  • [XEN] free pte on hugetlb_prefault to avoid the clear_page race
    (Dave McCracken, Joe Jin) [orabug 9493665]
  • [XEN] Flush tlb cache immediately to avoid clear_page race (Dave McCracken,
    Joe Jin) [orabug 9488844]
  • [aio] remove limit on number of retries (Srinivas Eeda) [orabug 10044782]
    [2.6.9-89.35.1]
    -unix: fix local socket dos (Neil Horman) [656757 656758] {CVE-2010-4249}
    -serial: clean data before filling it (Mauro Carvalho Chehab) [648808 648809]
    -net: fix reception of completely page backed sk_buffs (Andy Gospodarek) [664667 500921]
    -net: filter: make sure filters dont read uninitialized memory (Jiri Pirko) [651700 651701] {CVE-2010-4158}
    [2.6.9-89.34.1]
    -alsa: rme9652: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory (Stanislaw Gruszka) [648806 648807] {CVE-2010-4080}
    -bluetooth: fix missing null check (Jarod Wilson) [655662 655663] {CVE-2010-4242}
    -ipc: initialize structure memory to zero for compat functions (Xiaotian Feng) [648810 648811] {CVE-2010-4073}
    -ipc: shm: fix information leak to userland (Xiaotian Feng) [648816 648817] {CVE-2010-4072}
    -kernel: failure to revert address limit override in oops error path (Dave Anderson) [659568 659569] {CVE-2010-4258}
    -net: limit sendto()/recvfrom()/iovec total length to INT_MAX (Jiri Pirko) [656871 651924] {CVE-2010-3859}
    -net: packet: fix information leak to userland (Jiri Pirko) [649895 649896] {CVE-2010-3876}
    -scsi: gdth: integer overflow in ioc_general (Frantisek Hrbata) [651173 651174] {CVE-2010-4157}
    -sys_semctl: semctl fix kernel stack leakage (Xiaotian Feng) [648793 648794] {CVE-2010-4083}