An unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update has been released for Oracle Linux 6.

El-errata: ELSA-2020-5962 Important: Oracle Linux 6 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2020-5962

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2020-5962.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 6 have been uploaded to the
Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
kernel-uek-doc-4.1.12-124.45.6.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-firmware-4.1.12-124.45.6.el6uek.noarch.rpm
kernel-uek-4.1.12-124.45.6.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-4.1.12-124.45.6.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-4.1.12-124.45.6.el6uek.x86_64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-4.1.12-124.45.6.el6uek.x86_64.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-4.1.12-124.45.6.el6uek.src.rpm


Description of changes:

[4.1.12-124.45.6.el6uek]
- qla2xxx: disable target reset during link reset and update version (Quinn Tran) [Orabug: 32095664]
- scsi: qla2xxx: Fix early srb free on abort (Quinn Tran) [Orabug: 32095664]
- scsi: qla2xxx: Fix comment in MODULE_PARM_DESC in qla2xxx (Masanari Iida) [Orabug: 32095664]
- scsi: qla2xxx: Enable Async TMF processing (himanshu.madhani@cavium.com) [Orabug: 32095664]
- qla2xxx: tweak debug message for task management path (Quinn Tran) [Orabug: 32095664]
- scsi: qla2xxx: Fix hang when issuing nvme disconnect-all in NPIV (Arun Easi) [Orabug: 32095664]
- scsi: qla2xxx: Fix fabric scan hang (Quinn Tran) [Orabug: 32095664]
- scsi: qla2xxx: Do command completion on abort timeout (Quinn Tran) [Orabug: 32095664]
- scsi: qla2xxx: Fix abort timeout race condition. (Quinn Tran) [Orabug: 32095664]
- scsi: qla2xxx: Fix race between switch cmd completion and timeout (Quinn Tran) [Orabug: 32095664]
- scsi: qla2xxx: Add IOCB resource tracking (Quinn Tran) [Orabug: 32095664]
- scsi: qla2xxx:v2: Fix double scsi_done for abort path (Quinn Tran) [Orabug: 32095664]
- scsi: qla2xxx: v2 Fix a race condition between aborting and completing a SCSI command (Bart Van Assche) [Orabug: 32095664]
- scsi: qla2xxx: Really fix qla2xxx_eh_abort() (Bart Van Assche) [Orabug: 32095664]
- scsi: qla2xxx: v2 Reject EH_{abort|device_reset|target_request} (Quinn Tran) [Orabug: 32095664]
- scsi: qla2xxx: v2: Fix race conditions in the code for aborting SCSI commands (Bart Van Assche) [Orabug: 32095664]

[4.1.12-124.45.5.el6uek]
- IB/ipoib: Arm "send_cq" to process completions in due time (Gerd Rausch) [Orabug: 31512608]

[4.1.12-124.45.4.el6uek]
- block: Move part of bdi_destory() to del_gendisk() as bdi_unregister(). (Jan Kara) [Orabug: 32124131]
- kernel: add panic_on_taint (Rafael Aquini) [Orabug: 32138039]

[4.1.12-124.45.3.el6uek]
- drm/vmwgfx: Make sure backup_handle is always valid (Sinclair Yeh) [Orabug: 31352076] {CVE-2017-9605}
- random32: move the pseudo-random 32-bit definitions to prandom.h (Linus Torvalds) [Orabug: 31698086] {CVE-2020-16166}
- random32: remove net_rand_state from the latent entropy gcc plugin (Linus Torvalds) [Orabug: 31698086] {CVE-2020-16166}
- random: fix circular include dependency on arm64 after addition of percpu.h (Willy Tarreau) [Orabug: 31698086] {CVE-2020-16166}
- random32: update the net random state on interrupt and activity (Willy Tarreau) [Orabug: 31698086] {CVE-2020-16166}
- x86/kvm: move kvm_load/put_guest_xcr0 into atomic context (WANG Chao) [Orabug: 32021856]
- kvm: x86: do not leak guest xcr0 into host interrupt handlers (David Matlack) [Orabug: 32021856]