port Red Hat bug 472572: HVM crash in net/core/dev.c during boot [orabug 7653948]
The following Red Hat patches were ported from the source RPM at: http://people.redhat.com/vgoyal/rhel4/SRPMS.kernel/kernel-2.6.9-78.22.EL.src.rpm
linux-2.6.9-xen-fix-netfront-mem-leak.patch
linux-2.6.9-xen-xen-vnif-stops-working-on-reception-of-duplicat.patch
linux-2.6.9-xen-guest-will-crash-if-rtl8139-nic-is-only-one-spe.patch
fix kernel null dereference in ap_suspend() during migration [orabug 7635625]
Ported from the el5u2 xenpv-0.1-9.0.1.el5 patch
ovs-bugz7262-fix-migration-hang-due-to-write-lock-starvation.patch.
In el5u2, the fix is to the xenpv driver. For el4u7, the xenpv driver
was moved into the kernel.
port el4u6 xenpv patch (orabug 7442030) for live migration hang
[orabug 7458244]
[xen]: port el5u2 patch that allows 64-bit PVHVM guest to boot with 32-bit
dom0 [orabug 7452107]
[mm] update shrink_zone patch to allow 100% swap utilization (John Sobecki,
Chris Mason, Chuck Anderson, Dave McCracken) [orabug 7566319,6086839]
[nfs] update fix for attribute caching when using actimeo=0 (Chuck Lever,
John Sobecki) [ORABUG 7131141,7156607,7388056] [RHBZ 446083,476726]
[kernel] backport report_lost_ticks patch from EL5.2 (John Sobecki)
[orabug 6110605]
[2.6.9-78.0.17]
-respin: added missing patches from build 78.0.15
[2.6.9-78.0.16]
-revert: nmi watchdog: move check_nmi_watchdog to later in boot time (Aristeu Rozanski) [479184 458859]
[2.6.9-78.0.15]
-fix a buffer overflow vulnerability with del_rbu driver (Don Howard) [482939 482940] {CVE-2009-0322}
-security: introduce missing kfree (Jiri Pirko) [480595 480596] {CVE-2009-0031}
-xen: add spurious fault handling to rhel4 xen (Chris Lalancette) [483748 465914]
[2.6.9-78.0.14]
-net: fix race between poll_napi and net_rx_action (Andy Gospodarek) [475970 463815]
-netpoll: fix race condition between net_rx_action and poll_napi that can result in garbage device (Neil Horman) [480741 474479]
-net: fix double list_del in net_rx_action (Neil Horman) [479681 477202]
-fs: fix ‘it already cleared for block’ errors (Josef Bacik) [476533 460179]
-iptables: fix oops on module unload (Neil Horman) [477147 456664]
-pidhashing: fix alloc_pidmap (Jiri Pirko) [479182 461246]
-nmi watchdog: move check_nmi_watchdog to later in boot time (Aristeu Rozanski) [479184 458859]
-sctp: memory overflow when fwd tsn chunk is received with bad stream id (Eugene Teo) [478959 478960] {CVE-2009-0065}
-kernel: enforce a minimum sg_io timeout (Eugene Teo) [475403 475404]