RHBA-2019:1337 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated kernel packages that fix various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Mellanox CX-5 MAC learning with OVS H/W offload not working (BZ#1686292)
• RHEL7.4 NFS4.1 client and server repeated SEQUENCE / TEST_STATEIDs with SEQUENCE Reply has SEQ4_STATUS_RECALLABLE_STATE_REVOKED set - NFS server should return NFS4ERR_DELEG_REVOKED or NFS4ERR_BAD_STATEID for revoked delegations (BZ#1689811)
• PANIC: "BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request" in the mtip32xx mtip_init_cmd_header routine (BZ#1689929)
• The nvme cli delete-ns command hangs indefinitely. (BZ#1690519)
• drm/nouveau: nv50 - Graphics become sluggish or frozen for nvidia Pascal cards (Regression from 1584963) - Need to flush fb writes when rewinding push buffer (BZ#1690761)
• [CEE/SD] Ceph+NFS server crashed and rebooted due to CephFS kernel client issue (BZ#1692266)
• [Mellanox OVS offload] tc fails to calculate the checksum in case vlan trunk and header rewrite (BZ#1693110)
• aio O_DIRECT writes to non-page-aligned file locations on ext4 can result in the overlapped portion of the page containing zeros (BZ#1693561)
• [HP WS 7.6 bug] Audio driver does not recognize multi function audio jack microphone input (BZ#1693562)
• XFS returns ENOSPC when using extent size hint with space still available (BZ#1693796)
• OVN requires IPv6 to be enabled (BZ#1694981)
• breaks DMA API for non-GPL drivers (BZ#1695511)
• ovl_create can return positive retval and crash the host (BZ#1696292)
• ceph: append mode is broken for sync/direct write (BZ#1696595)
• Problem building module due to -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL/-EXPORT_SYMBOL (BZ#1697241)
• Failed to load kpatch module after install the rpm package occasionally on ppc64le (BZ#1697867)
• [Hyper-V][RHEL7] Stop suppressing PCID bit (BZ#1697940)
• Resizing an online EXT4 filesystem on a loopback device hangs (BZ#1698110)
• dm table: propagate BDI_CAP_STABLE_WRITES (BZ#1699722)
• [ESXi][RHEL7.6]After upgrade to kernel-3.10.0-957.el7, system is unable to discover newly added VMware LSI Logic SAS virtual disks without a reboot. (BZ#1699723)
• kernel: zcrypt: fix specification exception on z196 at ap probe (BZ#1700706)
• XFS: Metadata corruption detected at xfs_attr3_leaf_write_verify() (BZ#1701293)
• stime showed huge values related to wrong calculation of time deltas (L3:) (BZ#1701743)
• Kernel panic due to NULL pointer dereference at sysfs_do_create_link_sd.isra.2+0x34 while loading [ipmi_si] module using hard-coded device (BZ#1701991)
• IPv6 ECMP modulo N hashing inefficient when X^2 rt6i_nsiblings (BZ#1702282)
• security: double-free attempted in security_inode_init_security() (BZ#1702286)
• Missing wakeup leaves task stuck waiting in blk_queue_enter() (BZ#1702921)
• Satellite Capsule sync triggers several XFS corruptions (BZ#1702922)
• BUG: SELinux doesn't handle NFS crossmnt well (BZ#1702923)
• md_clear flag missing from /proc/cpuinfo on late microcode update (BZ#1712993)
• MDS mitigations are not enabled after double microcode update (BZ#1712998)
• WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at kernel/jump_label.c:90 __static_key_slow_dec+0xa6/0xb0 (BZ#1713004)

Users of kernel are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

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

The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization Host 4 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
• 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

CVEs

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References

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