An unbreakable Enterprise kernel bug fix update has been released for Oracle Linux 7.

El-errata: ELBA-2023-12214 Oracle Linux 7 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel bug fix update

Oracle Linux Bug Fix Advisory ELBA-2023-12214

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELBA-2023-12214.html

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

x86_64:
kernel-uek-4.14.35-2047.523.4.2.el7uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-4.14.35-2047.523.4.2.el7uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-4.14.35-2047.523.4.2.el7uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-4.14.35-2047.523.4.2.el7uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-tools-4.14.35-2047.523.4.2.el7uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-4.14.35-2047.523.4.2.el7uek.noarch.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates//kernel-uek-4.14.35-2047.523.4.2.el7uek.src.rpm


Description of changes:

[4.14.35-2047.523.4.2.el7uek]
- xfs: add missing cmap->br_state = XFS_EXT_NORM update (Gao Xiang) [Orabug: 35215030]
- x86/tsc: Disable clocksource watchdog for TSC on qualified platorms (Feng Tang) [Orabug: 35215029]
- x86/tsc: Add a timer to make sure TSC_adjust is always checked (Feng Tang) [Orabug: 35215029]
- block: fix handling for BIO_NO_PAGE_REF (Ming Lei) [Orabug: 35215061]
- block: add BIO_NO_PAGE_REF flag (Jens Axboe) [Orabug: 35215061]
- block: implement bio helper to add iter bvec pages to bio (Jens Axboe) [Orabug: 35215061]
- block: introduce mp_bvec_for_each_page() for iterating over page (Ming Lei) [Orabug: 35215061]
- KVM: x86: Prevent set vCPU into INIT/SIPI_RECEIVED state when INIT are latched (Liran Alon) [Orabug: 35215019]
- KVM: x86: Evaluate latched_init in KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS when vCPU not in SMM (Liran Alon) [Orabug: 35215019]

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