kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update is available for kernel.
This update affects Rocky Linux 8.
A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

• A use-after-free in cls_route filter implementation may lead to privilege escalation (CVE-2022-2588)

• Information leak in scsi_ioctl() (CVE-2022-0494)

• A kernel-info-leak issue in pfkey_register (CVE-2022-1353)

• RetBleed Arbitrary Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions (CVE-2022-23816, CVE-2022-29900)

• Branch Type Confusion (non-retbleed) (CVE-2022-23825)

• RetBleed Arbitrary Speculative Code Execution with Return Instructions (CVE-2022-29901)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Bug Fix(es):

• Add s390_iommu_aperture kernel parameter (BZ#2081324)

• Blackscreen and hangup after resume from hibernate or S3 with DFGX WX3200 (BZ#2091065)

• Update NVME subsystem with bug fixes and minor changes (BZ#2106017)

• Fix parsing of nw_proto for IPv6 fragments (BZ#2106703)

• “vmcore failed, _exitcode:139” error observed while capturing vmcore during fadump after memory remove. incomplete vmcore is captured. (BZ#2107488)

• ‘disable_policy’ is ignored for addresses configured on a down interface (BZ#2109971)

• Backport request for new cpufreq.default_governor kernel command line parameter (BZ#2109996)

• Panics in mpt3sas mpt3sas_halt_firmware() if mpt3sas_fwfault_debug=1 enabled when poweroff issued to server (BZ#2111140)

• IOMMU/DMA update for 8.7 (BZ#2111692)

• Update Broadcom Emulex lpfc driver for Rocky Linux8.7 with bug fixes (14.0.0.13) (BZ#2112103)

• Incorrect Socket(s) & “Core(s) per socket” reported by lscpu command. (BZ#2112820)

• Panic in ch_release() due to NULL ch->device pointer, backport upstream fix (BZ#2115965)

• pyverbs-tests fail over qede IW HCAs on “test_query_rc_qp” (tests.test_qp.QPTest) (BZ#2119122)

• qedi shutdown handler hangs upon reboot (BZ#2119847)

• cache link_info for ethtool (BZ#2120197)

• Important iavf bug fixes (BZ#2120225)

• Hibernate crash with Aquantia 2.5/5 Gb LAN card (BZ#2124966)

• While using PTimekeeper the qede driver produces excessive log messages (BZ#2125477)

• general protection fault handling rpc_xprt.timer (BZ#2126184)

• Not enough device MSI-X vectors (BZ#2126482)

• Atlantic driver panic on wakeup after hybernate (BZ#2127845)

• Memory leak in vxlan_xmit_one (BZ#2131255)

• Missing hybernate/resume fixes (BZ#2131936)

Enhancement(s):

• Update smartpqi driver to latest upstream Second Set of Patches (BZ#2112354)

• qed/qede/qedr - driver updates to latest upstream (BZ#2120611)

• Update qedi driver to latest upstream (BZ#2120612)

• Update qedf driver to latest upstream (BZ#2120613)

• Include the support for new NVIDIA Mobile GFX GA103 on ADL Gen Laptops (BZ#2127122)

• Need to enable hpilo to support new HPE RL300 Gen11 for ARM (aarch64) (BZ#2129923)