An Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update has been released for Oracle Linux 8.

El-errata: ELSA-2021-9006 Important: Oracle Linux 8 Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2021-9006

  http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2021-9006.html

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

x86_64:

aarch64:
kernel-uek-5.4.17-2036.102.0.2.el8uek.aarch64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-5.4.17-2036.102.0.2.el8uek.aarch64.rpm
kernel-uek-debug-devel-5.4.17-2036.102.0.2.el8uek.aarch64.rpm
kernel-uek-devel-5.4.17-2036.102.0.2.el8uek.aarch64.rpm
kernel-uek-doc-5.4.17-2036.102.0.2.el8uek.noarch.rpm

SRPMS:
  http://oss.oracle.com/ol8/SRPMS-updates/kernel-uek-5.4.17-2036.102.0.2.el8uek.src.rpm


Description of changes:

[5.4.17-2036.102.0.2.el8uek]
- xen-blkback: set ring->xenblkd to NULL after kthread_stop() (Pawel
Wieczorkiewicz) [Orabug: 32260252] {CVE-2020-29569}
- xenbus/xenbus_backend: Disallow pending watch messages (SeongJae Park)
[Orabug: 32253409] {CVE-2020-29568}
- xen/xenbus: Count pending messages for each watch (SeongJae Park)
[Orabug: 32253409] {CVE-2020-29568}
- xen/xenbus/xen_bus_type: Support will_handle watch callback (SeongJae
Park) [Orabug: 32253409] {CVE-2020-29568}
- xen/xenbus: Add 'will_handle' callback support in xenbus_watch_path()
(SeongJae Park) [Orabug: 32253409] {CVE-2020-29568}
- xen/xenbus: Allow watches discard events before queueing (SeongJae
Park) [Orabug: 32253409] {CVE-2020-29568}

[5.4.17-2036.102.0.1.el8uek]
- target: fix XCOPY NAA identifier lookup (David Disseldorp) [Orabug:
32248035] {CVE-2020-28374}

[5.4.17-2036.102.0.el8uek]
- futex: Fix inode life-time issue (Peter Zijlstra) [Orabug: 32233515]
{CVE-2020-14381}
- perf/core: Fix race in the perf_mmap_close() function (Jiri Olsa)
[Orabug: 32233352] {CVE-2020-14351}
- intel_idle: Customize IceLake server support (Chen Yu) [Orabug: 32218858]
- dm crypt: Allow unaligned bio buffer lengths for skcipher devices
(Sudhakar Panneerselvam) [Orabug: 32210418]
- vhost scsi: fix lun reset completion handling (Mike Christie) [Orabug:
32167069]
- vhost scsi: Add support for LUN resets. (Mike Christie) [Orabug: 32167069]
- vhost scsi: add lun parser helper (Mike Christie) [Orabug: 32167069]
- vhost scsi: fix cmd completion race (Mike Christie) [Orabug: 32167069]
- vhost scsi: alloc cmds per vq instead of session (Mike Christie)
[Orabug: 32167069]
- vhost: Create accessors for virtqueues private_data (Eugenio Pérez)
[Orabug: 32167069]
- vhost: add helper to check if a vq has been setup (Mike Christie)
[Orabug: 32167069]
- scsi: sd: Allow user to configure command retries (Mike Christie)
[Orabug: 32167069]
- scsi: core: Add limitless cmd retry support (Mike Christie) [Orabug:
32167069]
- scsi: mpt3sas: Update driver version to 36.100.00.00 (Suganath Prabu
S) [Orabug: 32242279]
- scsi: mpt3sas: Handle trigger page after firmware update (Suganath
Prabu S) [Orabug: 32242279]
- scsi: mpt3sas: Add persistent MPI trigger page (Suganath Prabu S)
[Orabug: 32242279]
- scsi: mpt3sas: Add persistent SCSI sense trigger page (Suganath Prabu
S) [Orabug: 32242279]
- scsi: mpt3sas: Add persistent Event trigger page (Suganath Prabu S)
[Orabug: 32242279]
- scsi: mpt3sas: Add persistent Master trigger page (Suganath Prabu S)
[Orabug: 32242279]
- scsi: mpt3sas: Add persistent trigger pages support (Suganath Prabu S)
[Orabug: 32242279]
- scsi: mpt3sas: Sync time periodically between driver and firmware
(Suganath Prabu S) [Orabug: 32242279]
- scsi: mpt3sas: Bump driver version to 35.101.00.00 (Sreekanth Reddy)
[Orabug: 32242279]
- scsi: mpt3sas: Add module parameter multipath_on_hba (Sreekanth Reddy)
[Orabug: 32242279]
- scsi: mpt3sas: Handle vSES vphy object during HBA reset (Sreekanth
Reddy) [Orabug: 32242279]
- scsi: mpt3sas: Add bypass_dirty_port_flag parameter (Sreekanth Reddy)
[Orabug: 32242279]
- scsi: mpt3sas: Handling HBA vSES device (Sreekanth Reddy) [Orabug:
32242279]
- scsi: mpt3sas: Set valid PhysicalPort in SMPPassThrough (Sreekanth
Reddy) [Orabug: 32242279]
- scsi: mpt3sas: Update hba_port objects after host reset (Sreekanth
Reddy) [Orabug: 32242279]
- scsi: mpt3sas: Get sas_device objects using device's rphy (Sreekanth
Reddy) [Orabug: 32242279]
- scsi: mpt3sas: Rename transport_del_phy_from_an_existing_port()
(Sreekanth Reddy) [Orabug: 32242279]
- scsi: mpt3sas: Get device objects using sas_address & portID
(Sreekanth Reddy) [Orabug: 32242279]
- scsi: mpt3sas: Update hba_port's sas_address & phy_mask (Sreekanth
Reddy) [Orabug: 32242279]
- scsi: mpt3sas: Rearrange _scsih_mark_responding_sas_device()
(Sreekanth Reddy) [Orabug: 32242279]
- scsi: mpt3sas: Allocate memory for hba_port objects (Sreekanth Reddy)
[Orabug: 32242279]
- scsi: mpt3sas: Define hba_port structure (Sreekanth Reddy) [Orabug:
32242279]
- scsi: mpt3sas: Fix ioctl timeout (Suganath Prabu S) [Orabug: 32242279]
- icmp: randomize the global rate limiter (Eric Dumazet) [Orabug:
32227958] {CVE-2020-25705}
- perf/x86/intel/uncore: Add box_offsets for free-running counters (Kan
Liang) [Orabug: 32020885]
- perf/x86/intel/uncore: Factor out __snr_uncore_mmio_init_box (Kan
Liang) [Orabug: 32020885]
- perf/x86/intel/uncore: Add Ice Lake server uncore support (Kan Liang)
[Orabug: 32020885]