[ol7_latest_archive] kernel-doc-3.10.0-862.3.3.el7.noarch

This package contains documentation files from the kernel
source. Various bits of information about the Linux kernel and the
device drivers shipped with it are documented in these files.

You'll want to install this package if you need a reference to the
options that can be passed to Linux kernel modules at load time.

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• Thu Jun 14 2018 John Mcwalters <john.mcwalters@oracle.com> [3.10.0-862.3.3.el7.OL7]

  - Oracle Linux certificates (Alexey Petrenko)
  - Oracle Linux RHCK Module Signing Key was compiled into kernel (olkmod_signing_key.x509)(alexey.petrenko@oracle.com)
  - Update x509.genkey [bug 24817676]

• Wed Jun 13 2018 Rado Vrbovsky <rvrbovsk@redhat.com> [3.10.0-862.3.3.el7]

  - [x86] always enable eager FPU by default on non-AMD processors (Paolo Bonzini) [1589051 1589048] {CVE-2018-3665}

• Tue May 15 2018 Rado Vrbovsky <rvrbovsk@redhat.com> [3.10.0-862.3.2.el7]

  - [x86] spec_ctrl: Fix late microcode problem with AMD (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
  - [x86] entry: Add missing "$" in IBRS macros (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
  - [x86] spec_ctrl: Clean up entry code & remove unused APIs (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
  - [x86] spec_ctrl: Mask off SPEC_CTRL MSR bits that are managed by kernel (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
  - [x86] spec_ctrl: add support for SSBD to RHEL IBRS entry/exit macros (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
  - [fs] proc: Use CamelCase for SSBD (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
  - [x86] bugs: Rename _RDS to _SSBD (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
  - [kernel] seccomp: Enable speculation flaw mitigations (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
  - [fs] proc: Provide details on speculation flaw mitigations (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
  - [x86] nospec: Allow getting/setting on non-current task (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
  - [x86] speculation: Add prctl for Speculative Store Bypass mitigation (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
  - [x86] process: Allow runtime control of Speculative Store Bypass (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
  - [uapi] prctl: Add speculation control prctls (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
  - [x86] kvm/vmx: Expose SPEC_CTRL Bit(2) to the guest (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
  - [x86] bugs/amd: Add support to disable RDS on Fam[15, 16, 17]h if requested (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
  - [x86] spec_ctrl: Sync up RDS setting with IBRS code (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
  - [x86] bugs: Provide boot parameters for the spec_store_bypass_disable mitigation (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
  - [x86] bugs: Expose /sys/../spec_store_bypass (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
  - [x86] bugs: Read SPEC_CTRL MSR during boot and re-use (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
  - [x86] spec_ctrl: Use separate PCP variables for IBRS entry and exit (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}
  - [x86] cpufeatures: Make CPU bugs sticky (Waiman Long) [1566904 1566905] {CVE-2018-3639}

• Thu May 10 2018 Rado Vrbovsky <rvrbovsk@redhat.com> [3.10.0-862.3.1.el7]

  - [x86] kpti/kexec: fix wrong page address in clear_page (Dave Young) [1573173 1571162]
  - [x86] kvm: fix icebp instruction handling (Paolo Bonzini) [1566849 1566845] {CVE-2018-1087}
  - [x86] entry/64: Don't use IST entry for #BP stack (Paolo Bonzini) [1567084 1567083] {CVE-2018-8897}
  - [kernel] perf/hwbp: Simplify the perf-hwbp code, fix documentation (Eugene Syromiatnikov) [1569878 1569874] {CVE-2018-1000199}

• Mon Apr 30 2018 Rado Vrbovsky <rvrbovsk@redhat.com> [3.10.0-862.2.1.el7]

  - [md] dm: fix dropped return code from dm_get_bdev_for_ioctl (Mike Snitzer) [1567746 1562962]
  - [crypto] aesni: Add support for 192 & 256 bit keys to AESNI RFC4106 (Bruno Eduardo de Oliveira Meneguele) [1570537 1568167]

• Fri Apr 13 2018 Rado Vrbovsky <rvrbovsk@redhat.com> [3.10.0-862.1.1.el7]

  - [x86] kexec/64: Clear control page after PGD init (Waiman Long) [1565700 1540061]
  - [x86] pti: Rework the UEFI data corruption fix (Waiman Long) [1565700 1540061]
  - [powerpc] tm: Flush TM only if CPU has TM feature (David Gibson) [1563773 1544676] {CVE-2018-1091}
  - [gpu] drm/i915/glk: IPC linetime watermark workaround for GLK (Lyude Paul) [1563711 1548651]
  - [x86] apic: Remove the (now) unused disable_IO_APIC() function (Baoquan He) [1563108 1521003]
  - [x86] apic: Fix restoring boot IRQ mode in reboot and kexec/kdump (Baoquan He) [1563108 1521003]
  - [x86] apic: Split disable_IO_APIC() into two functions to fix CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP=y (Baoquan He) [1563108 1521003]
  - [x86] apic: Split out restore_boot_irq_mode() from disable_IO_APIC() (Baoquan He) [1563108 1521003]
  - [netdrv] i40e: Close client on suspend and restore client MSIx on resume (Stefan Assmann) [1563106 1538847]
  - [fs] nfs: Fix unstable write completion (Scott Mayhew) [1563103 1544647]
  - [x86] kvm: Fix device passthrough when SME is active (Suravee Suthikulpanit) [1563098 1557911]
  - [powerpc] powernv: Support firmware disable of RFI flush (Mauricio Oliveira) [1563096 1553927]
  - [powerpc] pseries: Support firmware disable of RFI flush (Mauricio Oliveira) [1563096 1553927]
  - [powerpc] pseries: Add H_GET_CPU_CHARACTERISTICS flags & wrapper (Mauricio Oliveira) [1563096 1553927]
  - [nvme] fixup nvme_sysfs_delete() (David Milburn) [1563092 1543716]
  - [x86] smpboot: Fix uncore_pci_remove() indexing bug when hot-removing a physical CPU (Prarit Bhargava) [1563091 1527731]
  - [x86] tsc: Fix erroneous TSC rate on Skylake Xeon (Prarit Bhargava) [1563088 1466058]
  - [x86] tsc: Print tsc_khz, when it differs from cpu_khz (Prarit Bhargava) [1563088 1466058]
  - [x86] tsc: Future-proof native_calibrate_tsc() (Prarit Bhargava) [1563088 1466058]
  - [scsi] csiostor: add support for 32 bit port capabilities (Arjun Vynipadath) [1561906 1526163]
  - [netdrv] cxgb4/cxgbvf: Handle 32-bit fw port capabilities (Arjun Vynipadath) [1561906 1526163]
  - [netdrv] cxgb4vf: define get_fecparam ethtool callback (Arjun Vynipadath) [1561906 1526163]
  - [netdrv] cxgb4: ethtool forward error correction management support (Arjun Vynipadath) [1561906 1526163]
  - [netdrv] cxgb4: core hardware/firmware support for Forward Error Correction on a link (Arjun Vynipadath) [1561906 1526163]
  - [iscsi-target] Fix panic when adding second TCP connection to iSCSI session (Maurizio Lombardi) [1561900 1544670]
  - [crypto] chelsio: Fix src buffer dma length (Arjun Vynipadath) [1561899 1548047]
  - [crypto] chelsio: Move DMA un/mapping to chcr from lld cxgb4 driver (Arjun Vynipadath) [1561899 1548047]
  - [crypto] chelsio: Remove unused parameter (Arjun Vynipadath) [1561899 1548047]
  - [crypto] chelsio: Remove allocation of sg list to implement 2K limit of dsgl header (Arjun Vynipadath) [1561899 1548047]
  - [crypto] chelsio: introduce __skb_put_zero() (Arjun Vynipadath) [1561899 1548047]
  - [crypto] chelsio: make skb_put & friends return void pointers (Arjun Vynipadath) [1561899 1548047]
  - [gpu] drm/i915/cfl: Remove alpha support protection (Rob Clark) [1561897 1464911]
  - [gpu] drm/i915/cnl: Map VBT DDC Pin to BSpec DDC Pin (Rob Clark) [1561897 1464911]
  - [gpu] drm/i915: Add retries for LSPCON detection (Rob Clark) [1561897 1464911]
  - [gpu] drm/i915: Don't give up waiting on INVALID_MODE (Rob Clark) [1561897 1464911]
  - [nvme] pci: Fix EEH failure on ppc (Mauricio Oliveira) [1561894 1558499]
  - [net] netfilter: ebtables: fix erroneous reject of last rule (Florian Westphal) [1552366 1552370] {CVE-2018-1068}
  - [net] netfilter: ebtables: CONFIG_COMPAT: don't trust userland offsets (Florian Westphal) [1552366 1552370] {CVE-2018-1068}
  - [net] netfilter: bridge: ebt_among: add more missing match size checks (Florian Westphal) [1552366 1552370] {CVE-2018-1068}
  - [net] netfilter: bridge: ebt_among: add missing match size checks (Florian Westphal) [1552366 1552370] {CVE-2018-1068}
  - [net] ipsec: Fix aborted xfrm policy dump crash (Bruno Eduardo de Oliveira Meneguele) [1517292 1517290] {CVE-2017-16939}

• Wed Mar 21 2018 Bruno E. O. Meneguele <brdeoliv@redhat.com> [3.10.0-862.el7]

  - [netdrv] i40e: Fix attach VF to VM issue (Stefan Assmann) [1528123]
  - [netdrv] ixgbevf: Add check for ixgbe_mbox_api_13 to ixgbevf_probe when setting max_mtu (Ken Cox) [1556696]
  - [md] dm btree: fix serious bug in btree_split_beneath() (Mike Snitzer) [1557849]
  - [x86] pti: Disable PTI user page table update in EFI virtual mode (Waiman Long) [1540061]

• Wed Mar 14 2018 Bruno E. O. Meneguele <brdeoliv@redhat.com> [3.10.0-861.el7]

  - [netdrv] tg3: prevent scheduling while atomic splat (Jonathan Toppins) [1554590]
  - [nvme] validate admin queue before unquiesce (David Milburn) [1549733]

• Tue Mar 06 2018 Bruno E. O. Meneguele <brdeoliv@redhat.com> [3.10.0-860.el7]

  - [acpi] sbshc: remove raw pointer from printk() message (Baoquan He) [1547009] {CVE-2018-5750}
  - [fs] gfs2: fixes to "implement iomap for block_map" (Andreas Grunbacher) [1542594]
  - [x86] kvm: svm: disable virtual GIF and VMLOAD/VMSAVE (Paolo Bonzini) [1552090]

• Mon Mar 05 2018 Bruno E. O. Meneguele <brdeoliv@redhat.com> [3.10.0-859.el7]

  - [media] v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: refactor compat ioctl32 logic fixup (Jarod Wilson) [1548430] {CVE-2017-13166}
  - [kernel] futex: Prevent overflow by strengthen input validation (Joe Lawrence) [1547585] {CVE-2018-6927}
  - [fs] Revert dcache_readdir back to ->readdir() ("Eric W. Biederman") [1525541]
  - [md] dm-raid: fix incorrect sync_ratio when degraded (Mike Snitzer) [1547979]
  - [mm] page_alloc: fix memmap_init_zone pageblock alignment (Daniel Vacek) [1525121]
  - [mm] revert kvmalloc: stress the vmalloc path in the debugging kernel (Jeff Moyer) [1550094]
  - [powerpc] 64s: Allow control of RFI flush via debugfs (Mauricio Oliveira) [1543067]
  - [powerpc] 64s: Improve RFI L1-D cache flush fallback (Mauricio Oliveira) [1543067]
  - [powerpc] 64s: Wire up cpu_show_meltdown() (Mauricio Oliveira) [1543067]
  - [x86] kvm: vmx: Cache IA32_DEBUGCTL in memory (Paolo Bonzini) [1537379]
  - [x86] spec_ctrl: avoid rmb() on full retpoline kernels (Paolo Bonzini) [1537379]
  - [x86] spec_ctrl: replace boot_cpu_has with a static key for IBRS checks (Paolo Bonzini) [1537379]
  - [x86] spec_ctrl: actually use static key for retpolines (Paolo Bonzini) [1537379]
  - [x86] kvm: vmx: optimize IBRS handling at vmenter/vmexit (Paolo Bonzini) [1537379]
  - [x86] kvm: vmx: mark RDMSR path as unlikely (Paolo Bonzini) [1537379]
  - [x86] kvm: use native_read_msr to read SPEC_CTRL (Paolo Bonzini) [1537379]
  - [x86] kvm/nvmx: Set the CPU_BASED_USE_MSR_BITMAPS if we have a valid L02 MSR bitmap (Paolo Bonzini) [1537379]
  - [x86] nvmx: Properly set spec_ctrl and pred_cmd before merging MSRs (Paolo Bonzini) [1537379]
  - [x86] kvm/vmx: Allow direct access to MSR_IA32_SPEC_CTRL (Paolo Bonzini) [1537379]
  - [x86] kvm: Add IBPB support (Paolo Bonzini) [1537379]
  - [x86] kvm: vmx: make MSR bitmaps per-VCPU (Paolo Bonzini) [1537379]
  - [x86] kvm: vmx: Do not disable intercepts for BNDCFGS (Paolo Bonzini) [1537379]
  - [x86] kvm: vmx: introduce alloc_loaded_vmcs (Paolo Bonzini) [1537379]
  - [x86] kvm: nvmx: Eliminate vmcs02 pool (Paolo Bonzini) [1537379]
  - [x86] kvm: nvmx: single function for switching between vmcs (Paolo Bonzini) [1537379]
  - [x86] kvm: Update the reverse_cpuid list to include CPUID_7_EDX (Paolo Bonzini) [1537379]
  - [x86] cpuid: Fix up "virtual" IBRS/IBPB/STIBP feature bits on Intel (Paolo Bonzini) [1537379]
  - [x86] cpufeatures: Clean up Spectre v2 related CPUID flags (Paolo Bonzini) [1537379]
  - [x86] cpufeatures: Add Intel feature bits for Speculation Control (Paolo Bonzini) [1537379]
  - [x86] cpufeatures: Add AMD feature bits for Speculation Control (Paolo Bonzini) [1537379]
  - [x86] cpufeatures: Add CPUID_7_EDX CPUID leaf (Paolo Bonzini) [1537379]
  - [x86] cpu: Fill in feature word 13, CPUID_8000_0008_EBX (Paolo Bonzini) [1537379]