(RHSA-2024:1304) Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

• kernel: memcg does not limit the number of POSIX file locks allowing memory exhaustion (CVE-2022-0480)

Bug Fix(es):

• [RHEL9] Add various *.peak control files to cgroup v2 (JIRA:RHEL-22850)

• RHEL9 Guest on Google Cloud panics on reading pvpanic device capabilities (JIRA:RHEL-23858)

• raid5: read data is wrong when recovery happens (JIRA:RHEL-23882)

• md/raid5: release batch_last before waiting for another stripe_head (JIRA:RHEL-24512)

• [regression][ext4][xfstests generic/094] Error reading from file with invalid argument (JIRA:RHEL-25436)

• bpf: Fix elem_size not being set for inner maps (JIRA:RHEL-25764)

• Backport “crypto: rsa - allow only odd e and restrict value in FIPS mode” (JIRA:RHEL-26078)

• kernel: memcg does not limit the number of POSIX file locks allowing memory exhaustion (JIRA:RHEL-8911)

• [HPEMC RHEL 9.3 BUG] tools/power/x86 intel-speed-select crashes on systems with more than 8 sockets (JIRA:RHEL-17907)

• IPoIB: fix PKEY creation (JIRA:RHEL-22221)

• Memory corruption when using dm-crypt or dm-verity on RHEL-9 (JIRA:RHEL-26095)

• backport smartpqi: fix disable_managed_interrupts (JIRA:RHEL-26143)

• ffdhe* algortihms introduced in 0a2e5b909023 as .fips_allowed=1 lack pairwise consistency tests (JIRA:RHEL-27007)

Enhancement(s):

• s390/qeth: Fix vipa deletion (JIRA:RHEL-25813)