- BZ#601210
The Fusion Message Passing Technology (Fusion MPT) driver output many spurious "ioc[N] not found!" debugging messages to the dmesg log. This update reduces the verbosity of the Fusion MTP drivers so that dmesg output is more readable.
- BZ#599901
When using the igb network driver, multicast settings may have been lost, causing failure to receive multicast data. This update upgrades the igb network driver to upstream version 2.1.0-k2, which contains a fix such that multicast settings are retained and multicast data is properly received.
- BZ#555671
This update upgrades the bnx2 driver to upstream version 2.0.8, which provides improved hardware support.
- BZ#586135
This update upgrades the bnx2x driver to upstream version 1.52.1, which provides fixes and enhancements over the previous version.
- BZ#594630
An error in the securityfs code incorrectly checked the value of a pointer instead of dereferencing it, which could have potentially caused a kernel oops. This has been fixed in this update.
- BZ#562075
This update adds the MNT_NOFOLLOW option to the umount(2) system call. This option prevents umount(2) from following symbolic links, to help prevent symbolic link attacks on unprivileged file systems such as Samba, NCPFS, and file systems provided by the FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) project.
- BZ#578120
Due to security concerns raised by the state of the upstream Transparent Inter-Process Communication protocol (TIPC ) code, which is not maintained in the upstream Linux kernel, this update disables TIPC.
- BZ#576665
The timekeeping code has been improved so as to avoid a potential deadlock when the accumulator overflowed due to a particularly lengthy delay.