[LU-14450] kernel update [RHEL8.3 4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3]

Related — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 14:18:22 +0000

Security Fix(es):

kernel: locking issue in drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c can lead to an use-after-free (CVE-2020-29661)
kernel: performance counters race condition use-after-free (CVE-2020-14351)
kernel: ICMP rate limiting can be used for DNS poisoning attack (CVE-2020-25705)

Bug Fix(es):

Final fixes + drop alpha_support flag requirement for Tigerlake (BZ#1882620)
OVS complains Invalid Argument on TCP packets going into conntrack (BZ#1892744)
BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: handler106/3082 (BZ#1893281)
Icelake performance - add intel_idle: Customize IceLake server support to RHEL-8 (BZ#1897183)
[mlx5] IPV6 TOS rewrite flows are not getting offloaded in HW (BZ#1897688)
RHEL 8.3 SAS - multipathd fails to re-establish paths during controller random reset (BZ#1900112)
RHEL8.3 Beta - RHEL8.3 hangs on dbginfo.sh execution, crash dump generated (mm-) (BZ#1903019)
Win10 guest automatic reboot after migration in Win10 and WSL2 on AMD hosts (BZ#1905084)
block, dm: fix IO splitting for stacked devices (BZ#1905136)
Failed to hotplug scsi-hd disks (BZ#1905214)
PCI quirk needed to prevent GPU hang (BZ#1906516)
RHEL8.2 - various patches to stabilize the OPAL error log processing and the powernv dump processing (ESS) (BZ#1907301)
pmtu not working with tunnels as bridge ports and br_netfilter loaded (BZ#1907576)
[ThinkPad X13/T14/T14s AMD]: Kdump failed (BZ#1907775)
NFSv4 client improperly handles interrupted slots (BZ#1908312)
NFSv4.1 client ignores ERR_DELAY during LOCK recovery, could lead to data corruption (BZ#1908313)
[Regression] RHEL8.2 - [kernel 148.el8] cpu (sys) time regression in SAP HANA 2.0 benchmark benchInsertSubSelectPerformance (BZ#1908519)
RHEL8: kernel-rt: kernel BUG at kernel/sched/deadline.c:1462! (BZ#1908731)
SEV VM hang at efi_mokvar_sysfs_init+0xa9/0x19d during boot (BZ#1909243)
C6gn support requires "Ensure dirty bit is preserved across pte_wrprotect" patch (BZ#1909577)
[Lenovo 8.3 & 8.4 Bug] [Regression] No response from keyboard and mouse when boot from tboot kernel (BZ#1911555)
Kernel crash with krb5p (BZ#1912478)
[RHEL8] Need additional backports for FIPS 800-90A DRBG entropy seeding source (BZ#1912872)
[Hyper-V][RHEL-8] Request to included a commit that adds a timeout to vmbus_wait_for_unload (BZ#1913528)
Host becomes unresponsive during stress-ng --cyclic test rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: (BZ#1913964)
RHEL8.4: Backport upstream RCU patches up to v5.6 (BZ#1915638)
Missing mm backport to fix regression introduced by another mm backport (BZ#1915814)
[Hyper-V][RHEL-8]video: hyperv_fb: Fix the cache type when mapping the VRAM Edit (BZ#1917711)
ionic 0000:39:00.0 ens2: IONIC_CMD_Q_INIT (40) failed: IONIC_RC_ERROR (-5) (BZ#1918372)
[certification] mlx5_core depends on tls triggering TAINT_TECH_PREVIEW even if no ConnectX-6 card is present (BZ#1918743)
kvm-rhel8.3 [AMD] - system crash observed while powering on virtual machine with attached VF interfaces. (BZ#1919885)

Enhancement(s):

[Mellanox 8.4 FEAT] mlx5: Add messages when VF-LAG fails to start (BZ#1892344)

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0558?sc_cid=701600000006NHXAA2

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[LU-14450] kernel update [RHEL8.3 4.18.0-240.15.1.el8_3]