[Oraclevm-errata] OVMSA-2018-0273 Important: Oracle VM 3.4 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

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Thu Nov 15 12:47:50 PST 2018


Oracle VM Security Advisory OVMSA-2018-0273

The following updated rpms for Oracle VM 3.4 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
kernel-uek-4.1.12-124.21.1.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-4.1.12-124.21.1.el6uek.noarch.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/oraclevm/server/3.4/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-4.1.12-124.21.1.el6uek.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[4.1.12-124.21.1.el6uek]
- hugetlbfs: fix kernel BUG at fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c:447! (Mike Kravetz) 
[Orabug: 28839992]
- scsi: libsas: fix memory leak in sas_smp_get_phy_events() (Jason Yan) 
[Orabug: 27927687]  {CVE-2018-7757}
- KVM: vmx: shadow more fields that are read/written on every vmexits 
(Paolo Bonzini)  [Orabug: 28581045]
- vhost/scsi: Use common handling code in request queue handler (Bijan 
Mottahedeh)  [Orabug: 28775573]
- vhost/scsi: Extract common handling code from control queue handler 
(Bijan Mottahedeh)  [Orabug: 28775573]
- vhost/scsi: Respond to control queue operations (Bijan Mottahedeh) 
[Orabug: 28775573]

[4.1.12-124.20.8.el6uek]
- scsi: lpfc: devloss timeout race condition caused null pointer 
reference (James Smart)  [Orabug: 27994179]
- scsi: qla2xxx: Fix race condition between iocb timeout and 
initialisation (Ben Hutchings)  [Orabug: 28013813]
- i40e: Add programming descriptors to cleaned_count (Alexander Duyck) 
[Orabug: 28228724]
- i40e: Fix memory leak related filter programming status (Alexander 
Duyck)  [Orabug: 28228724]
- xen-swiotlb: use actually allocated size on check physical continuous 
(Joe Jin)  [Orabug: 28258102]
- Revert "Revert "xen-swiotlb: fix the check condition for 
xen_swiotlb_free_coherent"" (Dongli Zhang)  [Orabug: 28258102]
- net/mlx4_en: fix potential use-after-free with dma_unmap_page (Sarah 
Newman)  [Orabug: 28376051]
- ocfs2: fix ocfs2 read block panic (Junxiao Bi)  [Orabug: 28580543]
- block: fix bdi vs gendisk lifetime mismatch (Dan Williams)  [Orabug: 
28645416]
- e1000e: Fix link check race condition (Benjamin Poirier)  [Orabug: 
28716958]
- Revert "e1000e: Separate signaling for link check/link up" (Benjamin 
Poirier)  [Orabug: 28716958]
- e1000e: Avoid missed interrupts following ICR read (Benjamin Poirier) 
[Orabug: 28716958]
- e1000e: Fix queue interrupt re-raising in Other interrupt (Benjamin 
Poirier)  [Orabug: 28716958]
- Partial revert "e1000e: Avoid receiver overrun interrupt bursts" 
(Benjamin Poirier)  [Orabug: 28716958]
- e1000e: Remove Other from EIAC (Benjamin Poirier)  [Orabug: 28716958]
- Fix error code in nfs_lookup_verify_inode() (Lance Shelton)  [Orabug: 
28789030]
- workqueue: Allow modifying low level unbound workqueue cpumask (Lai 
Jiangshan)  [Orabug: 28813166]
- workqueue: Create low-level unbound workqueues cpumask (Frederic 
Weisbecker)  [Orabug: 28813166]
- scsi: sg: mitigate read/write abuse (Jann Horn)  [Orabug: 28824718] 
{CVE-2017-13168}

[4.1.12-124.20.7.el6uek]
- Revert "rds: RDS (tcp) hangs on sendto() to unresponding address" 
(Brian Maly)  [Orabug: 28837953]

[4.1.12-124.20.6.el6uek]
- x86/speculation: Retpoline should always be available on Skylake 
(Alexandre Chartre)  [Orabug: 28801831]

[4.1.12-124.20.5.el6uek]
- x86/speculation: Add sysfs entry to enable/disable retpoline 
(Alexandre Chartre)  [Orabug: 28607548]
- x86/speculation: Switch to IBRS when loading a non-retpoline module 
(Alexandre Chartre)  [Orabug: 28607548]
- x86/speculation: Remove unnecessary retpoline alternatives (Alexandre 
Chartre)  [Orabug: 28607548]
- x86/speculation: Use static key to enable/disable retpoline (Alexandre 
Chartre)  [Orabug: 28607548]
- locking/static_keys: Provide DECLARE and well as DEFINE macros (Tony 
Luck)  [Orabug: 28607548]
- jump_label: remove bug.h, atomic.h dependencies for HAVE_JUMP_LABEL 
(Jason Baron)  [Orabug: 28607548]
- locking/static_key: Fix concurrent static_key_slow_inc() (Paolo 
Bonzini)  [Orabug: 28607548]
- jump_label: make static_key_enabled() work on static_key_true/false 
types too (Tejun Heo)  [Orabug: 28607548]
- locking/static_keys: Fix up the static keys documentation (Jonathan 
Corbet)  [Orabug: 28607548]
- locking/static_keys: Fix a silly typo (Jonathan Corbet)  [Orabug: 
28607548]
- jump label, locking/static_keys: Update docs (Jason Baron)  [Orabug: 
28607548]
- x86/asm: Add asm macros for static keys/jump labels (Andy Lutomirski) 
[Orabug: 28607548]
- x86/asm: Error out if asm/jump_label.h is included inappropriately 
(Andy Lutomirski)  [Orabug: 28607548]
- jump_label/x86: Work around asm build bug on older/backported GCCs 
(Peter Zijlstra)  [Orabug: 28607548]
- locking/static_keys: Add a new static_key interface (Peter Zijlstra) 
[Orabug: 28607548]
- locking/static_keys: Rework update logic (Peter Zijlstra)  [Orabug: 
28607548]
- jump_label: Add jump_entry_key() helper (Peter Zijlstra)  [Orabug: 
28607548]
- jump_label, locking/static_keys: Rename JUMP_LABEL_TYPE_* and related 
helpers to the static_key* pattern (Peter Zijlstra)  [Orabug: 28607548]
- jump_label: Rename JUMP_LABEL_{EN,DIS}ABLE to JUMP_LABEL_{JMP,NOP} 
(Peter Zijlstra)  [Orabug: 28607548]
- module, jump_label: Fix module locking (Peter Zijlstra)  [Orabug: 
28607548]
- x86/speculation: Protect against userspace-userspace spectreRSB (Jiri 
Kosina)  [Orabug: 28631590]  {CVE-2018-15572}
- x86/spectre_v2: Remove remaining references to lfence mitigation 
(Alejandro Jimenez)  [Orabug: 28631590]  {CVE-2018-15572}
- Revert "md: allow a partially recovered device to be hot-added to an 
array." (NeilBrown)  [Orabug: 28702623]
- x86/bugs: ssbd_ibrs_selected called prematurely (Daniel Jordan) 
[Orabug: 28788839]
- net/mlx4_core: print firmware version during driver loading (Qing 
Huang)  [Orabug: 28809377]
- mm: numa: Do not trap faults on shared data section pages. (Henry 
Willard)  [Orabug: 28814880]
- hugetlbfs: dirty pages as they are added to pagecache (Mike Kravetz) 
[Orabug: 28813968]

[4.1.12-124.20.4.el6uek]
- rds: RDS (tcp) hangs on sendto() to unresponding address (Ka-Cheong 
Poon)  [Orabug: 28762608]
- nfs: fix a deadlock in nfs client initialization (Scott Mayhew) 
[Orabug: 28486463]
- infiniband: fix a possible use-after-free bug (Cong Wang)  [Orabug: 
28774517]  {CVE-2018-14734}



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