(RHSA-2022:6003) Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Security Fix(es):

• information leak in scsi_ioctl() (CVE-2022-0494)

• use-after-free in tc_new_tfilter() in net/sched/cls_api.c (CVE-2022-1055)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Bug Fix(es):

• Power9 - LPAR fails to boot in shared processing mode and call traces are seen [Hash] (BZ#2092248)

• Hard lockups are observed while running stress-ng and LPAR hangs (BZ#2092253)

• FIPS module identification via name and version (BZ#2093384)

• gfs2: File corruption with large writes when memory is tight (BZ#2097306)

• i/o on initiator stuck when network is disrupted (4.18.0-372.9.1.el8.x86_64) (BZ#2098251)

• RHEL 9.1 doesn’t support 3rd SATA (BZ#2099740)

• Guest call trace when reboot after postcopy migration with high stress workload (BZ#2100903)

• Oops or general protection fault with RIP decode_attr_security_label at decode_getfattr_attrs (BZ#2101854)

• Oops as BUG: unable to handle page fault as free of uninitialized nfs4_label on nfs referral lookup (BZ#2101858)

• lpar crash with Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] when changing mtu of a bond interface (P10/ ibmvnic/ Haleakala) (BZ#2103085)

• OS doesn’t boot when vmd and interrupt remapping are enabled (BZ#2109974)

Enhancement(s):

• iommu/vt-d: Make DMAR_UNITS_SUPPORTED a config setting (BZ#2105326)