- Issued:
- 2004-12-20
- Updated:
- 2004-12-20
RHBA-2004:550 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
Updated kernel packages available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 4
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Topic
Updated kernel packages are now available as part of ongoing support and
maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3. This is the fourth
regular update.
Description
The Linux kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system.
This is the fourth regular kernel update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.
New features introduced by this update include:
- support for sys_epoll on the S/390 and S/390x architectures
- support for Open Sound System AC97 plugin infrastructure
- support for PROT_GROWSDOWN/PROT_GROWSUP mprotect(2) flags
- extension of the disk dump facility to the AMD64 and EM64T platforms
There were many bug fixes in various parts of the kernel. The ongoing
effort to resolve these problems has resulted in a marked improvement
in the reliability and scalability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.
Some key areas affected by these fixes include disk and network drivers,
USB and SATA support, single-stepping through ptrace(2), as well as the
VM, SCSI, and auditing subsystems. In particular, there were several
critical fixes made to eliminate inappropriate swapping and kswapd
hangs in various memory contention scenarios.
The following device drivers have been upgraded to new versions:
aacraid ---- 1.1.5-2361
bonding ---- 2.6.0
cciss ------ 2.4.52.RH2
e1000 ------ 5.3.19-k2
emulex ----- 7.1.14
fusion ----- 2.05.16.02
i810_audio - 1.01
ips -------- 7.10.18
megaraid2 -- 2.10.8.2-RH1
pcnet32 ---- 1.30c
qlogic ----- 7.01.01
tg3 -------- 3.10RH
zfcp ------- 5.31.2.11
Note: The kernel-unsupported package contains various drivers and modules
that are unsupported and therefore might contain security problems that
have not been addressed.
All Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 users are advised to upgrade their
kernels to the packages associated with their machine architectures
and configurations as listed in this erratum.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.
To update all RPMs for your particular architecture, run:
rpm -Fvh [filenames]
where [filenames] is a list of the RPMs you wish to upgrade. Only those
RPMs which are currently installed will be updated. Those RPMs which are
not installed but included in the list will not be updated. Note that you
can also use wildcards (*.rpm) if your current directory *only* contains the
desired RPMs.
Please note that this update is also available via Red Hat Network. Many
people find this an easier way to apply updates. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:
up2date
This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.
If up2date fails to connect to Red Hat Network due to SSL
Certificate Errors, you need to install a version of the
up2date client with an updated certificate. The latest version of
up2date is available from the Red Hat FTP site and may also be
downloaded directly from the RHN website:
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 3 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 3 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 3 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 3 s390
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 3 ppc
Fixes
- BZ - 97445 - (SOUND ICH5) Intel ICH audio is not supported
- BZ - 100527 - RHEL3_U4 (NET PCNET32) DHCP client setup on NIC VMware don't work in VMware on reboot
- BZ - 102358 - (NET BONDING) kernel panic when optional feature used
- BZ - 102685 - RHEL3_U4 (NET 3C59X) 3c905B, 3c905 does not work correct on 10 MB HUB
- BZ - 104567 - system hang while running some file creation tests on our IA64
- BZ - 105751 - RHEL3_U4 Install fails with cdrom attached to USB 2.0 hub
- BZ - 105909 - O(1) scheduler deadlock
- BZ - 107026 - magicdev causes illegal request when cd inserted into dvd-rom
- BZ - 107075 - RHEL3 U4: iSCSI Software Initiator
- BZ - 108450 - cat /dev/kmem crashes system on hugemem kernel
- BZ - 109528 - (i810_audio) no audio I875
- BZ - 110233 - Content-Length denotes the length of uncompressed content though compression is used
- BZ - 111902 - reduce stack usage
- BZ - 112327 - Remote install of RHEL2.1 U3 beta (1209) fails
- BZ - 112945 - "cat /dev/kmem > /dev/null" panics hugemem kernel
- BZ - 113341 - netdump - various race conditions that lead to hangs in panic()/die()
- BZ - 114348 - system starts swapping heavily when running a tpcc workload over NFS on RHEL3 U1
- BZ - 114355 - Bonding have been taking LONG TIME to FAIL OVER!
- BZ - 114723 - [RHEL3][PATCH]Olympic NIC rt0 cause Kernel Panics.
- BZ - 114838 - LTC5490-x335: shared runqueue mapping not correc
- BZ - 114890 - i810 Audio Not Working
- BZ - 116428 - RHEL3 U4: statfs64
- BZ - 117583 - Remote install of RHEL3 & RHEL3 U1 fails
- BZ - 118156 - Shutting down the network causes an MCA
- BZ - 118637 - Realtek RTL8169 GBE driver hangs on shutdown
- BZ - 118706 - Heavy swapping kills performance
- BZ - 118712 - intel 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller sound outputs from MIC socket
- BZ - 118839 - RPC: buffer allocation failures for NFS client
- BZ - 118962 - bonding failover with arp ping and tg3 driver isnt working
- BZ - 119077 - RHEL3 AS/IPF/U4: MCA with tulip driver (4-port 100BT card).
- BZ - 119772 - [x86_64] gdb large coredump test hangs system
- BZ - 120262 - slow outbound performance of the r8169 driver
- BZ - 120645 - [USB] only allow usb-storage to reset if it owns the whole device
- BZ - 120889 - LTC7569-System hang after the pid reach to 32768 even set pid_max large enough
- BZ - 121595 - Dumping core expands the page table
- BZ - 121665 - [PATCH] LTC7869-qlogic qla driver is always enabling ZIO
- BZ - 121746 - IPSec SAD entry won't flush
- BZ - 121803 - cp -p, ls -l on automounted filesystems hang
- BZ - 121980 - RHEL3 U3: Add sys_epoll backport from 2.6 into kernel for Domino 7 support
- BZ - 122077 - servers freeze (only respond to ping and sysrq) periodically
- BZ - 122892 - [PATCH] usb-uhci outputting errors under normal operation.
- BZ - 123454 - igmp packets generated with invalid cksums
- BZ - 123525 - [PATCH] Kernel fails with kernel parameter apm=power-off on SMP System.
- BZ - 124445 - RHEL3 U4: (NET VLAN) requested updated vlan driver
- BZ - 124446 - RHEL3 U4: (NET BONDING) Request updated bonding driver
- BZ - 124576 - Swapping even when there is enough memory free causing performance problems.
- BZ - 124711 - [Patch] Changes required to tg3 driver to support Sun blades platform
- BZ - 125106 - LTC9090-sym53c8xx missing from kernel-2.4.21-15.EL.ppc64iseries.rpm
- BZ - 125570 - IGMPv3 is default, there is no option for IGMPv2
- BZ - 125715 - [PATCH] LTC7022-Trouble using aio_read64 with stdin
- BZ - 125971 - [PATCH] EL3 U4: ia32e smp Kernel doesn't bringup cpus with apicid >= 8
- BZ - 125996 - NFS should support NLM_MAXCOOKIELEN != 8 to work with OSX, BSD, etc
- BZ - 126218 - s390 kernels do not export _sb_findmap
- BZ - 126297 - Segmentation fault when stack size is less than 2Mbytes
- BZ - 126313 - LTC9450-System reporting only 1 cpu when specifying smt-enabled=off at the lilo prompt
- BZ - 126516 - RHEL 3 U4: diskdump for x86-64
- BZ - 126522 - RHEL3U3 PreBeta : IRQ for LOM is incorrect in one case only
- BZ - 126671 - [PATCH] LTC9595-RTAS errors constantly displayed on console and prevents console use
- BZ - 126699 - single-stepping over system call or trapping instruction executes two instructions instead of one on i386
- BZ - 126903 - RHEL3_U4 large corefile support is broken
- BZ - 126908 - single-stepping system call executes two instructions on powerpc
- BZ - 126911 - single-stepping sigreturn executes two instructions on amd64/x86_64
- BZ - 126913 - single-stepping sigreturn appears to execute two insns on ia64
- BZ - 126984 - [PATCH]RHEL3: x445 Legacy USB support workaround needed
- BZ - 126998 - Machine hangs in less than one hour
- BZ - 127384 - s390 appears to execute two instructions when a SIGSEGV
- BZ - 127528 - incorrect socket sndbuf accounting for multicast sockets with IP_MULTICAST_LOOP set
- BZ - 127551 - LTC9882-eth1 Tx FIFO error and the machine can't pingable
- BZ - 127686 - RHEL3 U3 kernel has execstack support, but no PROT_GROWSDOWN
- BZ - 127721 - LTC9746-Emulex Driver 7.0.3 failed with INCORRECT DATA for BLAST on RHEL 3.0 Update 3
- BZ - 127725 - LTC9758-IO cases stop on RAID5 disk array
- BZ - 127739 - [patch] multithreaded core files broken on IA64.
- BZ - 127813 - [RHEL3 U4] Loss of SATA ICH device hangs RAID1
- BZ - 127815 - netconsole freezes during printk() when output link not up
- BZ - 127830 - init: PANIC: segmentation violation
- BZ - 127843 - LTC9204-CMVC458686 - JS20 running bootme to floppy seems hung
- BZ - 127864 - LTC9987-EEH code attempts to enable EEH on ISA devices
- BZ - 127896 - Using hugetlb causes massive slowdowns with ramfs
- BZ - 128027 - RHEL3 U4: sys_epoll for Domino enablement
- BZ - 128041 - LTC10040-Output of ipcs -l is wrong
- BZ - 128052 - LTC9969-the content of /proc/scsi/ibmvscsi/1 is misleading
- BZ - 128055 - LTC9686-modprobe ibmvscsic fails
- BZ - 128231 - ppc64 kernel missing sendfile64 syscall for 32-bit userspace
- BZ - 128243 - Running out of lowfree on 2.4.21-9.0.1.ELsmp kernel
- BZ - 128244 - LTC10007-machine crashes in vio_register_driver()+2c while loading ibmvscsic module
- BZ - 128409 - LTC10141- rhel 3 U3: platform event logs truncated to 1K
- BZ - 128421 - LTC10148-CMVC466489 - bonding config in tg3 DD is not working
- BZ - 128469 - accessing /dev/kmem on hugemem kernel causes oops
- BZ - 128652 - utimes syscall is not auditable by laus
- BZ - 128690 - block_commit_write() not exported in RHEL 3
- BZ - 128794 - [RHEL3]Oops in de_put due to proc_dir_entry inconsistencies
- BZ - 128812 - RHEL3 U4: cciss Driver Update
- BZ - 128892 - Random failure on EM64T
- BZ - 128970 - OOM problems on RHEL3U2
- BZ - 129060 - patch-02-floodping: fix multicast or broadcast flood ping hang on HiperSockets
- BZ - 129089 - LTC10351-/proc/ppc64/lparcfg does not display capped proc properly
- BZ - 129302 - MAX_IO_APICS increase to 16
- BZ - 129359 - [RHEL3] uncorrectable ECC memory errors do NOT halt the system
- BZ - 129681 - statfs64 backport from 2.6
- BZ - 129821 - missing dtr mapping for initial idle task
- BZ - 129969 - RHEL3 U4: CIO device driver update for data corruptor
- BZ - 129971 - RHEL 3 U4: iucv patch for lost connection with high load
- BZ - 129972 - RHEL3 U4: Qlogic driver update to 7.00.04 (HP says 7.01.01)
- BZ - 130012 - OOM Kill kicks in on 64 Gig Bull Nova system
- BZ - 130174 - audit_get_result() needs to return negative error codes on IA64 platforms
- BZ - 130177 - Add clone2 syscall support for ia64 platforms
- BZ - 130180 - Audit option to disable auditing of 32b processes on ia64 platforms
- BZ - 130191 - LTC10485-loading icom device driver crashed the system RHEL U3.0
- BZ - 130266 - audit module has problem executing filter rules for symlink syscall
- BZ - 130338 - LTC10305-stat() return error after patch to bug 7569
- BZ - 130373 - LTP read02 test case hangs when tmpfs is in use
- BZ - 130374 - RHEL3 U4: update ips adaptec driver to latest upstream
- BZ - 130611 - RHEL3 U4: currency of zfcp (s390x)
- BZ - 130696 - RHEL3 U4: Refresh e100 driver v3.0.27
- BZ - 130698 - RHEL3 U4: Update e1000 driver (v 5.3.19)
- BZ - 130704 - restarting system with "init 6" or "reboot" generates kernel panic
- BZ - 130800 - RHEL 3 U4: OS_INIT support for diskdump for IPF
- BZ - 130823 - Audit does not generate records for the pread/pwrite system calls
- BZ - 130843 - not-present translations for region 5(vmalloc'd area) not handled
- BZ - 130874 - zfcp is unable to attach more than 1 volume per SCSI target
- BZ - 130902 - Severe system performace degradation on RHEL3 (doing simple file IO).
- BZ - 130927 - PCI table entry needed for Emulex PCI express HBA card
- BZ - 130929 - missing syscall auditing for pread() and pwrite()
- BZ - 130995 - On i386 PTRACE_SINGLESTEP to deliver signal runs handler without single-step
- BZ - 131022 - RHEL3 U4: iucv driver update, connection lost with high network load
- BZ - 131027 - sys-rq-t on hugemem or smp can hang machine
- BZ - 131048 - Summary: Multicast broken on x86_64
- BZ - 131057 - RHEL3 U3: When the kernel was run with ACPI enabled, pcibios_enable_irq() was called in pcibios_enable_device()
- BZ - 131140 - Unable to allocate ZONE_DMA mem on systems with CONFIG_HIGHMEM64GB set
- BZ - 131269 - RHEL3U2 x86-64 on xw4200 will not boot if APIC is disabled in BIOS
- BZ - 131393 - RHEL 3 U4: Update LSI mptfusion driver to 2.05.16.02 or later
- BZ - 131504 - [RHEL3][IPF] missing dtr mapping for initial idle task
- BZ - 131518 - [RHEL3 U4] SCSI midlayer race on scsi_devicelist
- BZ - 131521 - [RHEL3 U4] scsi add-single-device memory leak
- BZ - 131525 - [RHEL3 U4] System hang with circular kswapd alloc dependency
- BZ - 131655 - [RHEL3][PATCH] Eliminate rawmode warnings when mousebutton is clicked.
- BZ - 131703 - U3 kernel panics when loading aacraid module
- BZ - 131719 - bad error message or incorrect polling of speed and duplex with bonded interface and tg3 driver
- BZ - 131907 - agpgart broken for i810E chipset
- BZ - 132066 - XFree Fails to Load After Upgrade
- BZ - 132155 - Excessive swapping related to disk cache usage
- BZ - 132178 - [RHEL3][PATCH] Changing the value of ip_queue_maxlen does not work
- BZ - 132244 - df output on large nfs filesystem terabyte
- BZ - 132465 - RHEL3 U4: diskdump x86-64 support
- BZ - 132466 - RHEL3 U4: diskdump - diskdumpfmt performance improvement
- BZ - 132639 - kswapd run amok after U3 upgrade
- BZ - 132849 - ptrace race condition can cause kernel panic
- BZ - 132935 - XFree86 GUI won't start with RedHat build 2.4.21-14.EL
- BZ - 133163 - Add new usb ids to wacom driver
- BZ - 133183 - cpio with many files flips kswapd, system hangs
- BZ - 133233 - RHEL 3 U4: Add TUN driver (Virtual Point-to-Point)
- BZ - 133246 - kernel: RPC: buffer allocation failed
- BZ - 133568 - tar takes 3x as long
- BZ - 133782 - On PowerPC PTRACE_SINGLESTEP to deliver signal runs handler without single-step
- BZ - 133794 - On amd64 PTRACE_SINGLESTEP to deliver signal runs handler without single-step
- BZ - 133833 - df returns value of "1" for "1-K", "Used", "Available" fields for NFS mounted reiserfs filesystems
- BZ - 133971 - RHEL3 U3 kernel oops when running 2.4.21-20.6
- BZ - 134352 - Cannot start GNOME with new kernel
- BZ - 134639 - SCSI: need to whitelist IBM FAStT600 to see all LUNs
- BZ - 134936 - Kernel panic with kernel-smp-2.4.21-20.EL on a Dell PowerEdge 1650
- BZ - 135243 - keyboard.c can't emulate rawmode for keycode 272/273/274
- BZ - 135286 - Running Cerberus causes the system to become unresponsive to user input.
- BZ - 135328 - ehci-hcd fails to init
- BZ - 135739 - Fatal server error: no screens found
- BZ - 136630 - memory leak in /usr/bin/watch
- BZ - 136894 - stack traces don\'t work on ia64
- BZ - 137138 - [Patch] java crashes because of execute disable mapping of data
- BZ - 137446 - ioctl on HP Smart Array 532 failure
- BZ - 137464 - [RHEL3][PATCH] fix NX disabling for legacy applications
- BZ - 137513 - kswapd consumes 100% cpu and system slows to a crawl
- BZ - 137537 - "usb-uhci.c interrupt status 3" appears when two USB devices installed
- BZ - 137819 - 2.4.21-22.EL kernel boot panic on EM64T
- BZ - 137874 - Process stuck in "D" when reading disk
- BZ - 137908 - 2.4.21-23 kernel hang X server
- BZ - 137927 - Process memory usage incorrect in top.
- BZ - 137964 - Oops loading the AMD 8151 agpgart driver
- BZ - 137984 - (VM)Kernel prefers swapping instead of releasing cache memory
- BZ - 137988 - kernel-2.4.21-21.EL kernel hangs overnight on EM64T
- BZ - 138029 - move iscsi modules to main kernel package
- BZ - 138101 - Process memory usage incorrect in top - RHEL3 U4 *Beta*
- BZ - 138219 - keyboard doesn't work using newest build of RHEL 3 Update 4 kernel
- BZ - 138283 - from kernel-2.4.21-21 to kernel-2.4.21-23 agpgart patch brokes boot
- BZ - 138384 - posix_locks_deadlock() getting stuck in endless loop
- BZ - 138443 - Wrong Chaparral FR1422 identifier JSS224 instead of JFS224
- BZ - 138814 - diskdump on megaraid stalls after printing "start dumping"
- BZ - 139113 - System hangs for 15-45 seconds on RHEL3 / kernel 2.4.21-20.EL
- BZ - 139713 - 2.4.21-24.EL causes keyboard and kudzu problems
- BZ - 139952 - ls -l fails on nfs shares with RPC: buffer allocation failed for task
- BZ - 140022 - Data corruption on RHEL3 U4 beta -26.EL kernel
- BZ - 140405 - panic: e100_free_tcb_pool() called when no pool allocated
- BZ - 140452 - /dev/sctu0-data buffer miscompare [PATCH]
- BZ - 140669 - agpgart module fails to load
- BZ - 142749 - NX bit interferes with Java JRE 1.4.2 on intel CPUs
- BZ - 142959 - kswapd may calls wakeup_kswapd() recursively
- BZ - 143159 - After installing computer reports, "I cannot start the X server" and gives me a blue screen
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
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