[LU-14993] kernel update [RHEL8.4 4.18.0-305.17.1.el8_4]

Related — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 19:31:17 +0000

Security Fix(es):

kernel: powerpc: KVM guest OS users can cause host OS memory corruption (CVE-2021-37576)
kernel: slab-out-of-bounds access in xdr_set_page_base() in net/sunrpc/xdr.c (CVE-2021-38201)

Bug Fix(es):

Update Broadcom Emulex lpfc driver for RHEL8.5 with bug fixes (BZ#1948608)
cyclictest shows >50us latency when guest enters idle (RT guest with 18 RT vCPUs) (BZ#1981336)
xfrm: backports from upstream (BZ#1981840)
A task is stuck waiting for the completion of the vmci_resouce releasing upon the balloon reset. (BZ#1982042)
[mlx5] backport driver bits of net: zero-initialize tc skb extension on allocation (BZ#1982220)
Kernel cannot kill a process doing compaction for hugepage allocation (BZ#1984085)
RHEL8.4 Nightly[0108] - [P10] [Regression] Kdump failed on RHEL8.4 on SAN disk via flavafish adapter (qla2xxx/HPT/Radix) (BZ#1986156)
[RHEL8.5] scheduler updates and fixes (BZ#1987296)
RHEL 8.3 using FCOE via a FastLinQ QL45000 card will not manually scan in LUN from Target_id's over 8 (BZ#1989097)
fixes for oopses in security mitigation runtime code patching (BZ#1989174)
act mirred doesn't scrub packets when sending them to ingress (BZ#1992226)
HPE: Cannot install 8.4 using the DVD presented to the iLO (BZ#1993894)
NFS client hangs on share listing when server side readdir verifiers are implemented (BZ#1993895)
SNO: The load is extremely high (~870) when pao is added and a profile is applied. (BZ#1994879)
timeout value of conntrack entry with TCP ESTABLISHED status is too short (BZ#1995554)
Increase the default value for flowtable offload timeouts (BZ#1995555)
ice/iavf driver stop responding (BZ#1997534)
[FJ8.4 Bug]: [REG] Some files in /proc/sys/user show wrong data (BZ#1998002)

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