[ol7_latest_archive] kernel-3.10.0-123.4.2.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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• Fri Jul 11 2014 Jingdong Lu <jingdong.lu@oracle.com> [3.10.0-123.4.2.el7]

  - Oracle Linux certificates (Alexey Petrenko)

• Thu Jun 05 2014 Phillip Lougher <plougher@redhat.com> [3.10.0-123.4.2.el7]

  - [fs] aio: fix plug memory disclosure and fix reqs_active accounting backport (Jeff Moyer) [1094604 1094605] {CVE-2014-0206}
  - [fs] aio: plug memory disclosure and fix reqs_active accounting (Mateusz Guzik) [1094604 1094605] {CVE-2014-0206}

• Thu Jun 05 2014 Phillip Lougher <plougher@redhat.com> [3.10.0-123.4.1.el7]

  - [kernel] futex: Make lookup_pi_state more robust (Larry Woodman) [1104519 1104520] {CVE-2014-3153}
  - [kernel] futex: Always cleanup owner tid in unlock_pi (Larry Woodman) [1104519 1104520] {CVE-2014-3153}
  - [kernel] futex: Validate atomic acquisition in futex_lock_pi_atomic() (Larry Woodman) [1104519 1104520] {CVE-2014-3153}
  - [kernel] futex: prevent requeue pi on same futex (Larry Woodman) [1104519 1104520] {CVE-2014-3153}
  - [ethernet] qlcnic: Fix ethtool statistics length calculation (Michal Schmidt) [1104972 1099634]
  - Revert: [kernel] cputime: Default implementation of nsecs -> cputime conversion (Frederic Weisbecker) [1090974 1047732]
  - Revert: [kernel] cputime: Bring cputime -> nsecs conversion (Frederic Weisbecker) [1090974 1047732]
  - Revert: [kernel] cputime: Fix jiffies based cputime assumption on steal accounting (Frederic Weisbecker) [1090974 1047732]

• Tue Jun 03 2014 Phillip Lougher <plougher@redhat.com> [3.10.0-123.3.1.el7]

  - [kernel] mutexes: Give more informative mutex warning in the !lock->owner case (Larry Woodman) [1103629 1087655] [1103630 1087919] [1103631 1087922]
  - [kernel] mutex: replace CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_MUTEX_CPU_RELAX with simple ifdef (Larry Woodman) [1103629 1087655] [1103630 1087919] [1103631 1087922]
  - [kernel] locking/mutexes: Introduce cancelable MCS lock for adaptive spinning (Larry Woodman) [1103629 1087655] [1103630 1087919] [1103631 1087922]
  - [kernel] locking/mutexes: Modify the way optimistic spinners are queued (Larry Woodman) [1103629 1087655] [1103630 1087919] [1103631 1087922]
  - [kernel] locking/mutexes: Return false if task need_resched() in mutex_can_spin_on_owner() (Larry Woodman) [1103629 1087655] [1103630 1087919] [1103631 1087922]
  - [kernel] Restructure the MCS lock defines and locking & Move mcs_spinlock.h into kernel/locking/ (Larry Woodman) [1103629 1087655] [1103630 1087919] [1103631 1087922]
  - [misc] arch: Introduce smp_load_acquire(), smp_store_release() (Larry Woodman) [1103629 1087655] [1103630 1087919] [1103631 1087922]
  - [kernel] locking/mutex: Fix debug_mutexes (Larry Woodman) [1103629 1087655] [1103630 1087919] [1103631 1087922]
  - [kernel] locking/mutex: Fix debug checks (Larry Woodman) [1103629 1087655] [1103630 1087919] [1103631 1087922]
  - [kernel] locking/mutexes: Unlock the mutex without the wait_lock (Larry Woodman) [1103629 1087655] [1103630 1087919] [1103631 1087922]

• Mon Jun 02 2014 Phillip Lougher <plougher@redhat.com> [3.10.0-123.2.1.el7]

  - [net] filter: prevent nla extensions to peek beyond the end of the message (Jiri Benc) [1096780 1096781] {CVE-2014-3144 CVE-2014-3145}
  - [block] floppy: don't write kernel-only members to FDRAWCMD ioctl output (Denys Vlasenko) [1094316 1094318] {CVE-2014-1737 CVE-2014-1738}
  - [block] floppy: ignore kernel-only members in FDRAWCMD ioctl input (Denys Vlasenko) [1094316 1094318] {CVE-2014-1737 CVE-2014-1738}
  - [net] core, nfqueue, openvswitch: Orphan frags in skb_zerocopy and handle errors (Jiri Pirko) [1091345 1079014] {CVE-2014-2568}
  - [net] ipv4: current group_info should be put after using (Jiri Benc) [1087415 1087416] {CVE-2014-2851}
  - [fs] dcache: make prepend_name() work correctly when called with negative *buflen (Mikulas Patocka) [1099048 1092746]
  - [fs] dcache: __dentry_path() fixes (Mikulas Patocka) [1099048 1092746]
  - [fs] dcache: prepend_path() needs to reinitialize dentry/vfsmount/mnt on restarts (Mikulas Patocka) [1099048 1092746]
  - [target] tcm_fc: Fix use-after-free of ft_tpg (Andy Grover) [1088110 1071340]
  - [s390] af_iucv: wrong mapping of sent and confirmed skbs (Hendrik Brueckner) [1103064 1098513]
  - [s390] kernel: avoid page table walk on user space access (Hendrik Brueckner) [1103062 1097687]
  - [s390] crypto: fix aes, des ctr mode concurrency finding (Hendrik Brueckner) [1103060 1097686]
  - [net] openvswitch: fix a possible deadlock and lockdep warning (Flavio Leitner) [1103318 1094867]
  - [mm] filemap: update find_get_pages_tag() to deal with shadow entries (Johannes Weiner) [1103065 1091795]
  - [mm] page-writeback: fix divide by zero in pos_ratio_polynom (Rik van Riel) [1103067 1091784]
  - [mm] page-writeback: add strictlimit feature (Rik van Riel) [1103067 1091784]
  - [fs] xfs: log vector rounding leaks log space (Brian Foster) [1103059 1091136]
  - [fs] xfs: truncate_setsize should be outside transactions (Brian Foster) [1103059 1091136]
  - [fs] gfs2: Fix uninitialized VFS inode in gfs2_create_inode (Abhijith Das) [1097407 1087995]
  - [kernel] futex: Fix pthread_cond_broadcast() to wake up all threads (Larry Woodman) [1103066 1084757]
  - [net] ip: generate unique IP identificator if local fragmentation is allowed (Jiri Pirko) [1090490 1076106]
  - [kernel] cputime: Fix jiffies based cputime assumption on steal accounting (Frederic Weisbecker) [1090974 1047732]
  - [kernel] cputime: Bring cputime -> nsecs conversion (Frederic Weisbecker) [1090974 1047732]
  - [kernel] cputime: Default implementation of nsecs -> cputime conversion (Frederic Weisbecker) [1090974 1047732]
  - [x86] irq, pic: Probe for legacy PIC and set legacy_pic appropriately (Vivek Goyal) [1094973 1037957]
  - [virt] hyperv/vmbus: Negotiate version 3.0 when running on ws2012r2 hosts (Vivek Goyal) [1094973 1037957]

• Tue May 27 2014 Phillip Lougher <plougher@redhat.com> [3.10.0-123.1.1.el7]

  - [tty] n_tty: Fix n_tty_write crash when echoing in raw mode (Aristeu Rozanski) [1094241 1094242] {CVE-2014-0196}

• Mon May 05 2014 Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> [3.10.0-123.el7]

  - [mm] rmap: try_to_unmap_cluster() should lock_page() before mlocking (Larry Woodman) [1078349] {CVE-2014-3122}
  - [mm] huge_memory: Fix cpuset cgroups so all pages for a task remain on correct node (Larry Woodman) [1076613]
  - [mm] mprotect: fix oops in change_pmd_range called from task_numa_work (Rik van Riel) [1085050]

• Thu May 01 2014 Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> [3.10.0-122.el7]

  - [security] device_cgroup: check if exception removal is allowed (Aristeu Rozanski) [1086057]
  - [security] device_cgroup: rework device access check and rule checking (Aristeu Rozanski) [1086057]
  - [fs] autofs: fix lockref lookup (Ian Kent) [1083815]
  - [mei] me: do not load the driver if the FW doesn't support MEI interface (Prarit Bhargava) [1082789]

• Tue Apr 08 2014 Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> [3.10.0-121.el7]

  - [virt] vhost/net: fix total length when packets are too short ("Michael S. Tsirkin") [1064446] {CVE-2014-0077}
  - [virt] vhost/net: validate vhost_get_vq_desc return value ("Michael S. Tsirkin") [1070940] {CVE-2014-0055}

• Mon Apr 07 2014 Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> [3.10.0-120.el7]

  - [net] netfilter: fix panic when oom during rule replacement (Florian Westphal) [985657]
  - [net] netfilter: x_tables: fix ordering of jumpstack allocation and table update (Florian Westphal) [985657]
  - [virt] kvm/ioapic: try to recover if pending_eoi goes out of range (Paolo Bonzini) [1036478]
  - [virt] kvm/ioapic: fix assignment of ioapic->rtc_status.pending_eoi (Paolo Bonzini) [1036478 1081590] {CVE-2014-0155}
  - [virt] kvm/ioapic: reinject pending interrupts on KVM_SET_IRQCHIP (Paolo Bonzini) [1036478]
  - [virt] kvm/ioapic: extract body of kvm_ioapic_set_irq (Paolo Bonzini) [1036478]
  - [virt] kvm/ioapic: clear IRR for edge-triggered interrupts at delivery (Paolo Bonzini) [1036478]
  - [virt] kvm/ioapic: merge ioapic_deliver into ioapic_service (Paolo Bonzini) [1036478]
  - [virt] kvm: ignore ioapic polarity (Paolo Bonzini) [1036478]
  - [core] device: Create 'device_driver_rh' KABI shadowing structure (Myron Stowe) [1083692]
  - [core] device: Create 'device_rh' KABI shadowing structure (Myron Stowe) [1083692]
  - [scsi] Reserve space in structures for future XCOPY support (Ewan Milne) [1080430]
  - [fs] xfs: fix bad hash ordering (Brian Foster) [1083206]
  - [fs] xfs: always do log forces via the workqueue (Brian Foster) [1052004]