RHBA-2017:2093 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for SLOF is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

Slimline Open Firmware (SLOF) is initialization and boot firmware based on the IEEE-1275 (Open Firmware) standard, developed by engineers of the IBM Corporation. Note that this package is normally not necessary to install, because it is a dependency of the qemu-kvm package.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Users of SLOF are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1366953 - virtio balloon can not work with pci-bridge
• BZ - 1375166 - [ppc64le] Guest has not initialized the display in vnc while using both virtio-vga and virtio-gpu-pci
• BZ - 1377083 - [ppc64le] SLOF crashes during boot when adding two pci-bridge to the guest
• BZ - 1392055 - Rebase SLOF for RHEL-7.4
• BZ - 1393273 - Rebooting guest with invalid hugepage parameters hangs up
• BZ - 1410391 - [ppc64le]SLOF: with "-device virtio-blk-pci,bootindex=0 -boot order=cdn,once=n,menu=off,strict=off", after boot from virtio-blk-pci failed, slof don't change to boot from network
• BZ - 1442930 - [ppc64le] BARs are incorrectly assigned for some devices under P2P bridges
• BZ - 1443433 - [ppc64le] Guest failed to boot up with 8 nested pci-bridge
• BZ - 1443904 - SLOF user interface display bootable device and "SLOF" words duplicate

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/7.4_Release_Notes/index.html