A kernel security and bug fix update has been released for Oracle Linux 8.

El-errata: ELSA-2020-4286 Important: Oracle Linux 8 kernel security and bug fix update

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2020-4286

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2020-4286.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the
Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
bpftool-4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
kernel-4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
kernel-abi-whitelists-4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.noarch.rpm
kernel-core-4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-core-4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-devel-4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
kernel-debug-modules-extra-4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
kernel-devel-4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
kernel-doc-4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.noarch.rpm
kernel-headers-4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
kernel-modules-4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
kernel-modules-extra-4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
perf-4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
python3-perf-4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm

aarch64:
bpftool-4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm
kernel-cross-headers-4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm
kernel-headers-4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm
kernel-tools-libs-4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm
perf-4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm
python3-perf-4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/kernel-4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.src.rpm


Description of changes:

[4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.OL8]
- Oracle Linux certificates (Kevin Lyons)
- Disable signing for aarch64 (Ilya Okomin)
- Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was added to the kernel trusted
keys list (olkmod_signing_key.pem) [Orabug: 29539237]
- Update x509.genkey [Orabug: 24817676]
- Conflict with shim-ia32 and shim-x64 dl_boosted (Phil Auld) [1867612
1854179]
- [kernel] sched/core: Fix PI boosting between RT and DEADLINE tasks
(Phil Auld) [1867612 1854179]
- [net] net/smc: tolerate future SMCD versions (Philipp Rudo) [1866390
1854992]
- [net] openvswitch: fixes potential deadlock in dp cleanup code (Eelco
Chaudron) [1859216 1845662]
- [net] openvswitch: reorder masks array based on usage (Eelco Chaudron)
[1859216 1845662]
- [net] openvswitch: take into account de-fragmentation/gso_size in
execute_check_pkt_len (Lorenzo Bianconi) [1860169 1851888]