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
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]
port EL5U3 patch to adjust totalhigh_pages in the balloon driver [orabug 8300888]
check to see if hypervisor supports memory reservation change (Chuck Anderson) [orabug7556514]
[XEN] use hypercall to fixmap pte updates (Mukesh Rathor) [orabug 8433329]
[XEN] Extend physical mask to 40bit for machine above 64G [orabug 8312526]
fix oops in show_partition using RCU (Wen gang Wang) [orabug 8423936]
[2.6.9-78.0.22]
-nmi watchdog: fix LAPIC mode detection on cpus with supported performance counters (John Villalovos) [497330 491338]
[2.6.9-78.0.21]
-igb: prevent deadlock while executing netdump (Andy Gospodarek) [480579 435886]
[2.6.9-78.0.20]
-mce: do not clear status registers in fatal conditions (Aristeu Rozanski) [494915 489695]
[2.6.9-78.0.19]
-xen: guest will crash if rtl8139 nic is only one specified (Don Dutile) [477146 472572]
-fix CLONE_PARENT and parent_exec_id interaction (Don Howard) [479961 479962] {CVE-2009-0028}
-x86_64: syscall_audit: fix 32/64 syscall hole (Jerome Marchand) [487999 488000] {CVE-2009-0834}
-x86_64: backport is_compat_task (Jerome Marchand) [487999 488000] {CVE-2009-0834}
-megaraid: fix a bug in reset handler (Tomas Henzl) [493420 481662]
-ext3: ext3_symlink should use gfp_nofs allocations inside (Flavio Leitner) [493422 489768]
[2.6.9-78.0.18]
-igb: prevent deadlock while executing netdump (Andy Gospodarek) [480579 435886]
-nfs: fix pages of a memory mapped nfs file get corrupted (Peter Staubach) [490119 432974]
-aio: fix race in aio_complete that leads to a process hang (Jeff Moyer) [489935 456686]
-mptfusion: remove check for type disk (Tomas Henzl) [487399 465514]
-kernel: fix kernel memory disclosure in getsockopt() with option SO_BSDCOMPAT (Don Howard) [486515 486516] {CVE-2009-0676}
-ia64: fix deadlock in ia64 sys_ptrace (Jerome Marchand) [484904 442816]
-nfs: remove bogus lock if signalled case (Bryn M. Reeves) [456284 456285] {CVE-2008-4307}
-nmi watchdog: generate load on all cpus while testing if the watchdog works (Aristeu Rozanski) [479184 488018]
-nmi watchdog: move check_nmi_watchdog to later in boot time (Aristeu Rozanski) [479184 458859]