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A kexec-tools bug fix and enhancement update has been released for Oracle Linux 7.



El-errata: ELBA-2020-5034 Oracle Linux 7 kexec-tools bug fix and enhancement update


Oracle Linux Bug Fix Advisory ELBA-2020-5034

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELBA-2020-5034.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 7 have been uploaded to the
Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
kexec-tools-2.0.15-51.0.1.el7_9.1.x86_64.rpm
kexec-tools-anaconda-addon-2.0.15-51.0.1.el7_9.1.x86_64.rpm
kexec-tools-eppic-2.0.15-51.0.1.el7_9.1.x86_64.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates/kexec-tools-2.0.15-51.0.1.el7_9.1.src.rpm


Description of changes:

[2.0.15-51.0.1.1]
- Check MokSBStateRT variable state to identify SecureBoot mode [Orabug:
31903240]
- Add delay to avoid upstream race condition [Orabug: 31121959]
- kdump: append no_timer_check to kdump kernel cmdline on xen guests
[Orabug: 30928441]
- kdump: append iommu=off to kdump kernel cmdline [Orabug: 30832988]
- rebase on top makedumpfile 1.6.6 [Orabug: 30352094]
- makedumpfile: bump LATEST_VERSION to 5.4.9 [Orabug: 30521746]
- makedumpfile: backport needed upstream aarch64 patches [Orabug: 30352094]
- trigger initramfs cleanup for kernel-uek and kernel-uek-debug [Orabug:
30192631]
- change makedumpfile fixed size buffer for VMCOREINFO
(isaac.chen@oracle.com) [Orabug: 29612733]
- rebase
kexec-tools-2.0.8-dracut-module-setup-ibft-avoid-dup-config.patch
(brian.maly@oracle.com) [Orabug: 28872281]
- don't patch files in SOURCES directory. That breaks building from the
srpm (dave.kleikamp@oracle.com)
- dracut-module-setup: avoid duplicate config for ibft [Orabug: 22780125]
- kdumpctl: exclude default_hugepagesz setting from kdump kernel cmdline
(Sriharsha Yadagudde) [Orabug: 19134999]
- kdumpctl: verify if kernel support securelevel interface
(Sriharsha Yadagudde) [Orabug: 18905671]

[2.0.15-51.1]
- makedumpfile/sadump: Fix a KASLR problem of sadump while kdump is working