[LU-8839] Kernel update for RHEL6.8 2.6.32-642.11.1.el6

• Type: Bug
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Priority: Minor
• Severity: 3
• Assignee: Yang Sheng
• Reporter: Yang Sheng

Description

Security Fix(es):

• It was found that stacking a file system over procfs in the Linux kernel
  could lead to a kernel stack overflow due to deep nesting, as demonstrated
  by mounting ecryptfs over procfs and creating a recursion by mapping
  /proc/environ. An unprivileged, local user could potentially use this flaw
  to escalate their privileges on the system. (CVE-2016-1583, Important)

• It was reported that on s390x, the fork of a process with four page table
  levels will cause memory corruption with a variety of symptoms. All
  processes are created with three level page table and a limit of 4TB for
  the address space. If the parent process has four page table levels with a
  limit of 8PB, the function that duplicates the address space will try to
  copy memory areas outside of the address space limit for the child process.
  (CVE-2016-2143, Moderate)

Bug Fix(es):

• Use of a multi-threaded workload with high memory mappings sometiems
  caused a kernel panic, due to a race condition between the context switch
  and the pagetable upgrade. This update fixes the switch_mm() by using the
  complete asce parameter instead of the asce_bits parameter. As a result,
  the kernel no longer panics in the described scenario. (BZ#1377472)

• When iptables created the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) reset
  packet, a kernel crash could occur due to uninitialized pointer to the TCP
  header within the Socket Buffer (SKB). This update fixes the transport
  header pointer in TCP reset for both IPv4 and IPv6, and the kernel no
  longer crashes in the described situation.(BZ#1372266)

• Previously, when the Enhanced Error Handling (EEH) mechanism did not
  block the PCI configuration space access and an error was detected, a
  kernel panic occurred. This update fixes EEH to fix this problem. As a
  result, the kernel no longer panics in the described scenario. (BZ#1379596)

• When the lockd service failed to start up completely, the notifier blocks
  were in some cases registered on a notification chain multiple times, which
  caused the occurrence of a circular list on the notification chain.
  Consequently, a soft lock-up or a kernel oops occurred. With this update,
  the notifier blocks are unregistered if lockd fails to start up completely,
  and the soft lock-ups or the kernel oopses no longer occur under the
  described circumstances. (BZ#1375637)

• When the Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) was configured, the FCoE
  MaxFrameSize parameter was incorrectly restricted to 1452. With this
  update, the NETIF_F_ALL_FCOE symbol
  is no longer ignored, which fixes this bug. MaxFrameSize is now restricted
  to 2112, which is the correct value. (BZ#1381592)

• When the fnic driver was installed on Cisco UCS Blade Server, the discs
  were under certain circumstances put into the offline state with the
  following error message: "Medium access timeout failure. Offlining disk!".
  This update fixes fnic to set the Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)
  status as DID_ABORT after a successful abort operation. As a result, the
  discs are no longer put into the offlined state in the described situation.
  (BZ#1382620)

Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1308908 - CVE-2016-2143 kernel: Fork of large process causes memory corruption
1344721 - CVE-2016-1583 kernel: Stack overflow via ecryptfs and /proc/$pid/environ

Issue Links

• duplicates: LU-8838 kernel update [RHEL6.8 2.6.32-642.11.1.el6]