[ol7_MODRHCK] kernel-3.10.0-957.5.1.0.2.el7.x86_64

The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any
Linux operating system.  The kernel handles the basic functions
of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device
input and output, etc.

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• Wed Feb 27 2019 Mridula Shastry <mridula.c.shastry@oracle.com> [3.10.0-957.5.1.0.1.el7.OL7]

  - [xen/balloon] Support xend-based toolstack (orabug 28663970)

• Tue Jan 29 2019 Kevin Lyons <kevin.x.lyons@oracle.com> [3.10.0-957.5.1.0.1.el7.OL7]

  - [x86/apic/x2apic] avoid allocate multiple irq vectors for a single interrupt on multiple
    cpu, otherwise irq vectors would be used up when there are only 2 cpu online per node.
    [orabug28691156]
  - [bonding] avoid repeated display of same link status change. [orabug 28109857]
  - [ipc] ipc/sem.c: bugfix for semctl(,,GETZCNT) (Manfred Spraul) [orabug 22552377]
  - Oracle Linux certificates (Alexey Petrenko)
  - Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was compiled into kernel (olkmod_signing_key.x509)(alexey.petrenko@oracle.com)
  - Update x509.genkey [bug 24817676]

• Wed Dec 19 2018 Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com> [3.10.0-957.5.1.el7]

  - [fs] revert "[fs] sunrpc: Ensure we always close the socket after a connection shuts down" (Dave Wysochanski) [1660784 1657399]

• Fri Dec 14 2018 Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com> [3.10.0-957.4.1.el7]

  - [net] macsec: let the administrator set UP state even if lowerdev is down (Sabrina Dubroca) [1658970 1626004]
  - [net] macsec: update operstate when lower device changes (Sabrina Dubroca) [1658970 1626004]
  - [fs] nfsv4.x: fix lock recovery during delegation recall (Steve Dickson) [1657840 1634086]
  - [fs] cifs: Fix autonegotiate security settings mismatch (Leif Sahlberg) [1657841 1650148]
  - [md] raid1: panic because of using freed memory (Xiao Ni) [1656500 1632575]
  - [pci] Match Root Port's MPS to endpoint's MPSS as necessary (Myron Stowe) [1656395 1524000]
  - [pci] Skip MPS logic for Virtual Functions (VFs) (Myron Stowe) [1656395 1524000]
  - [x86] kvm: vmx: re-add ple_gap module parameter (Gary Hook) [1656393 1652933]
  - [iommu] vt-d: Fix iotlb psi missing for mappings (Peter Xu) [1653592 1623856]
  - [iommu] vt-d: Introduce __mapping_notify_one() (Peter Xu) [1653592 1623856]
  - [scsi] libfc: retry PRLI if we cannot analyse the payload (Chris Leech) [1655045 1631130]
  - [scsi] libfc: Do not drop down to FLOGI for fc_rport_login() (Chris Leech) [1655044 1625721]
  - [scsi] libfc: Do not login if the port is already started (Chris Leech) [1655044 1625721]
  - [scsi] libfc: don't advance state machine for incoming FLOGI (Chris Leech) [1655044 1625721]
  - [gpu] drm/i915: Add short HPD IRQ storm detection for non-MST systems (Lyude Paul) [1654733 1608704]
  - [gpu] drm/i915: Clarify flow for disabling IRQs on storms (Lyude Paul) [1654733 1608704]
  - [gpu] drm/i915: Fix threshold check in intel_hpd_irq_storm_detect() (Lyude Paul) [1654733 1608704]
  - [gpu] drm/i915: Fix NULL deref when re-enabling HPD IRQs on systems with MST (Lyude Paul) [1654733 1608704]
  - [gpu] drm/i915: Fix possible race in intel_dp_add_mst_connector() (Lyude Paul) [1654733 1608704]
  - [iommu] amd: Clear memory encryption mask from physical address (Gary Hook) [1649025 1643293]
  - [security] Make [un]register_lsm_notifier() null ops if !selinux_enabled (Don Dutile) [1648811 1621072]
  - [netdrv] bonding/802.3ad: fix link_failure_count tracking (Jarod Wilson) [1648294 1641660]
  - [block] nvme: do not require GENERIC_HARDIRQ interfaces on s390 (Hendrik Brueckner) [1648239 1637637]
  - [nvme] nvme-pci: add a memory barrier to nvme_dbbuf_update_and_check_event (David Milburn) [1648240 1630481]
  - [x86] kprobes: Use 5-byte NOP when the code might be modified by ftrace (Josh Poimboeuf) [1647816 1577050]
  - [fs] userfaultfd: check VM_MAYWRITE was set after verifying the uffd is registered (Andrea Arcangeli) [1640518 1640519] {CVE-2018-18397}

• Wed Dec 05 2018 Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com> [3.10.0-957.3.1.el7]

  - [mm] userfaultfd: allow get_mempolicy(MPOL_F_NODE|MPOL_F_ADDR) to trigger userfaults (Andrea Arcangeli) [1640518 1640519] {CVE-2018-18397}
  - [mm] userfaultfd: shmem: uffdio_copy: set the page dirty if VM_WRITE is not set (Andrea Arcangeli) [1640518 1640519] {CVE-2018-18397}
  - [mm] userfaultfd: shmem: add i_size checks (Andrea Arcangeli) [1640518 1640519] {CVE-2018-18397}
  - [mm] userfaultfd: shmem/hugetlbfs: only allow to register VM_MAYWRITE vmas (Andrea Arcangeli) [1640518 1640519] {CVE-2018-18397}
  - [mm] userfaultfd: shmem: allocate anonymous memory for MAP_PRIVATE shmem (Andrea Arcangeli) [1640518 1640519] {CVE-2018-18397}
  - [mm] userfaultfd: use ENOENT instead of EFAULT if the atomic copy user fails (Andrea Arcangeli) [1640518 1640519] {CVE-2018-18397}
  - [fs] userfaultfd: disable irqs when taking the waitqueue lock (Andrea Arcangeli) [1640518 1640519] {CVE-2018-18397}
  - [fs] userfaultfd.c: remove redundant pointer uwq (Andrea Arcangeli) [1640518 1640519] {CVE-2018-18397}
  - [fs] userfaultfd: remove uffd flags from vma->vm_flags if UFFD_EVENT_FORK fails (Andrea Arcangeli) [1640518 1640519] {CVE-2018-18397}
  - [fs] userfaultfd: hugetlbfs: fix userfaultfd_huge_must_wait() pte access (Andrea Arcangeli) [1640518 1640519] {CVE-2018-18397}
  - [mm] userfaultfd: prevent non-cooperative events vs mcopy_atomic races (Andrea Arcangeli) [1640518 1640519] {CVE-2018-18397}
  - [fs] userfaultfd: convert to use anon_inode_getfd() (Andrea Arcangeli) [1640518 1640519] {CVE-2018-18397}
  - [fs] mm, userfaultfd, thp: avoid waiting when PMD under THP migration (Andrea Arcangeli) [1640518 1640519] {CVE-2018-18397}
  - [net] packet: fix a race in packet_bind() and packet_notifier() (Andrea Claudi) [1643680 1643681] {CVE-2018-18559}
  - [x86] kvm: x86: ensure all MSRs can always be KVM_GET/SET_MSR'd (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [x86] kvm: x86: #GP when guest attempts to write MCi_STATUS register w/o 0 (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [x86] kvm/hyper-v: inject #GP only when invalid SINTx vector is unmasked (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [x86] kvm/hyper-v: remove stale entries from vec_bitmap/auto_eoi_bitmap on vector change (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [x86] kvm: x86: hyperv: avoid livelock in oneshot SynIC timers (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [x86] kvm: x86: hyperv: add KVM_CAP_HYPERV_SYNIC2 (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [x86] kvm: Add kvm_vcpu_get_idx to get vcpu index in kvm->vcpus (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [x86] kvm: x86: fix NULL deref in vcpu_scan_ioapic (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [x86] kvm: x86: use delivery to self in hyperv synic (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [x86] kvm: x86: hyperv: make function static to avoid compiling warning (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [x86] kvm: hyper-v: do not do hypercall userspace exits if SynIC is disabled (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [x86] kvm/x86: Hyper-V VMBus hypercall userspace exit (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [x86] kvm/x86: Reject Hyper-V hypercall continuation (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [x86] kvm/x86: Hyper-V SynIC timers tracepoints (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [x86] kvm/x86: Hyper-V SynIC tracepoints (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [x86] kvm/x86: Update SynIC timers on guest entry only (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [x86] kvm/x86: Skip SynIC vector check for QEMU side (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [x86] kvm/x86: Hyper-V fix SynIC timer disabling condition (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [x86] kvm/x86: Reorg stimer_expiration() to better control timer restart (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [x86] kvm/x86: Hyper-V unify stimer_start() and stimer_restart() (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [x86] kvm/x86: Drop stimer_stop() function (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [x86] kvm/x86: Hyper-V timers fix incorrect logical operation (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [x86] kvm/x86: Remove Hyper-V SynIC timer stopping (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [x86] kvm/x86: Hyper-V SynIC timers (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [x86] kvm/x86: Hyper-V SynIC message slot pending clearing at SINT ack (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [x86] kvm/x86: Added Hyper-V vcpu_to_hv_vcpu()/hv_vcpu_to_vcpu() helpers (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [x86] kvm/x86: Rearrange func's declarations inside Hyper-V header (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [x86] kvm/x86: Hyper-V kvm exit (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [x86] kvm/x86: Hyper-V synthetic interrupt controller (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [x86] kvm/x86: split ioapic-handled and EOI exit bitmaps (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [x86] kvm/irqchip: kvm_arch_irq_routing_update renaming split (Vitaly Kuznetsov) [1647097 1631439]
  - [pinctrl] cannonlake: Fix HOSTSW_OWN register offset of H variant (Benjamin Tissoires) [1647720 1647717 1609926 1544041]
  - [pinctrl] cannonlake: Fix gpio base for GPP-E (Benjamin Tissoires) [1647720 1647717 1609926 1544041]
  - [pinctrl] cannonlake: Fix community ordering for H variant (Benjamin Tissoires) [1647720 1647717 1609926 1544041]
  - [pinctrl] intel: Do pin translation in other GPIO operations as well (Benjamin Tissoires) [1647720 1647717 1609926 1544041]
  - [pinctrl] intel: Implement intel_gpio_get_direction callback (Benjamin Tissoires) [1647720 1647717 1609926 1544041]
  - [platform] x86: dell-smbios-wmi: Correct a memory leak (Jarod Wilson) [1647706 1640399]
  - [scsi] qedi: Initialize the stats mutex lock (Chad Dupuis) [1646870 1633638]
  - [s390] facilites: use stfle_fac_list array size for MAX_FACILITY_BIT (Hendrik Brueckner) [1646868 1628088]
  - [netdrv] qed: Add missing device config for RoCE EDPM in UFP mode (Chad Dupuis) [1646866 1631593]
  - [netdrv] qed: Do not add VLAN 0 tag to untagged frames in multi-function mode (Chad Dupuis) [1646866 1631593]
  - [netdrv] qed: Fix populating the invalid stag value in multi function mode (Chad Dupuis) [1646866 1631593]
  - [netdrv] qed: Fix link flap issue due to mismatching EEE capabilities (Chad Dupuis) [1645150 1636398]
  - [netdrv] qed: Fix shmem structure inconsistency between driver and the mfw (Chad Dupuis) [1645149 1634156]

• Tue Dec 04 2018 Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com> [3.10.0-957.2.1.el7]

  - [md] Simplify ternary operations (Xiao Ni) [1655046 1627563]
  - [x86] Mark Intel Cascade Lake supported (Steve Best) [1650213 1639980]
  - [net] rtnetlink: give a user socket to get_target_net() (Jiri Benc) [1639635 1630694] {CVE-2018-14646}
  - [net] Add variants of capable for use on on sockets (Jiri Benc) [1639635 1630694] {CVE-2018-14646}

• Thu Nov 01 2018 Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com> [3.10.0-957.1.1.el7]

  - [x86] boot: Fix kexec booting failure in the SEV bit detection code (Kairui Song) [1644990 1628828]
  - [net] 8021q: create device with all possible features in wanted_features (Davide Caratti) [1644675 1640645]
  - [mm] memcontrol: fix high scheduling latency source in mem_cgroup_reparent_charges (Andrea Arcangeli) [1644673 1632898]
  - [kernel] cpuset: use trialcs->mems_allowed as a temp variable (Aristeu Rozanski) [1644236 1613248]
  - [kernel] cpuset: fix a warning when clearing configured masks in old hierarchy (Aristeu Rozanski) [1644236 1613248]
  - [kernel] cpuset: initialize effective masks when clone_children is enabled (Aristeu Rozanski) [1644236 1613248]
  - [x86] efi: Only load initrd above 4g on second try (Lenny Szubowicz) [1643359 1608955]
  - [x86] efi: Support initrd loaded above 4G (Lenny Szubowicz) [1643359 1608955]
  - [x86] efi: Generalize handle_ramdisks() and rename to handle_cmdline_files() (Lenny Szubowicz) [1643359 1608955]
  - [kernel] sched/fair: Fix throttle_list starvation with low CFS quota (Phil Auld) [1640675 1601153]
  - [target] scsi: iscsi: Use bin2hex instead of a re-implementation (Maurizio Lombardi) [1634711 1627034] {CVE-2018-14633}
  - [target] scsi: iscsi: Use hex2bin instead of a re-implementation (Maurizio Lombardi) [1634711 1627034] {CVE-2018-14633}

• Thu Oct 04 2018 Bruno E. O. Meneguele <bmeneg@redhat.com> [3.10.0-957.el7]

  - [mm] mlock: avoid increase mm->locked_vm on mlock() when already mlock2(, MLOCK_ONFAULT) (Rafael Aquini) [1633059]

• Wed Oct 03 2018 Bruno E. O. Meneguele <bmeneg@redhat.com> [3.10.0-956.el7]

  - [block] blk-mq: fix hctx debugfs entry related race between update hw queues and cpu hotplug (Ming Lei) [1619988]
  - [nvme] nvme-pci: unquiesce dead controller queues (Ming Lei) [1632424]

• Wed Oct 03 2018 Bruno E. O. Meneguele <bmeneg@redhat.com> [3.10.0-955.el7]

  - [netdrv] net/mlx5e: IPoIB, Set the netdevice sw mtu in ipoib enhanced flow (Alaa Hleihel) [1633652]
  - [netdrv] net/mlx5e: Fix traffic between VF and representor (Alaa Hleihel) [1633652]
  - [mm] vmscan: do not loop on too_many_isolated for ever (Waiman Long) [1632050]