[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2016:1764-1: important: Security update for the Linux Kernel

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SUSE Security Update: Security update for the Linux Kernel

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2016:1764-1

Rating: important

References: #880007 #889207 #899908 #903279 #908151 #931448

#937086 #940413 #942262 #943645 #943989 #945219

#956084 #956852 #957986 #957988 #957990 #959146

#959514 #959709 #960174 #960561 #960629 #961500

#961512 #961658 #962336 #962872 #963193 #963572

#963746 #963765 #963827 #963960 #964201 #964461

#965087 #965153 #965199 #965319 #965830 #965924

#966054 #966094 #966437 #966471 #966573 #966693

#966831 #966864 #966910 #967047 #967251 #967292

#967299 #967650 #967651 #967802 #967903 #968010

#968018 #968074 #968141 #968206 #968230 #968234

#968253 #968448 #968497 #968512 #968643 #968670

#968687 #968812 #968813 #969112 #969439 #969571

#969655 #969690 #969735 #969992 #969993 #970062

#970160 #970504 #970604 #970609 #970892 #970909

#970911 #970948 #970955 #970956 #970958 #970970

#971124 #971125 #971126 #971159 #971170 #971360

#971600 #971628 #972003 #972068 #972174 #972780

#972844 #972891 #972951 #973378 #973556 #973855

#974406 #974418 #975371 #975488 #975772 #975945

#980246

Cross-References: CVE-2015-7566 CVE-2015-8550 CVE-2015-8551

CVE-2015-8552 CVE-2015-8709 CVE-2015-8785

CVE-2015-8812 CVE-2015-8816 CVE-2016-0723

CVE-2016-2143 CVE-2016-2184 CVE-2016-2185

CVE-2016-2186 CVE-2016-2188 CVE-2016-2384

CVE-2016-2782 CVE-2016-3134 CVE-2016-3136

CVE-2016-3137 CVE-2016-3138 CVE-2016-3139

CVE-2016-3140 CVE-2016-3156 CVE-2016-3689

CVE-2016-3707 CVE-2016-3951

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension 12-SP1

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An update that solves 26 vulnerabilities and has 95 fixes

is now available.

 

Description:

 

 

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 SP1 Realtime kernel was updated to 3.12.58 to

receive various security and bugfixes.

 

The following security bugs were fixed:

- CVE-2015-7566: The treo_attach function in drivers/usb/serial/visor.c in

the Linux kernel allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a

denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or

possibly have unspecified other impact by inserting a USB device that

lacks a (1) bulk-in or (2) interrupt-in endpoint (bnc#961512).

- CVE-2015-8550: Xen, when used on a system providing PV backends, allowed

local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (host OS

crash) or gain privileges by writing to memory shared between the

frontend and backend, aka a double fetch vulnerability (bsc#957988).

- CVE-2015-8551: The PCI backend driver in Xen, when running on an x86

system, allowed local guest administrators to hit BUG conditions and

cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash)

by leveraging a system with access to a passed-through MSI or MSI-X

capable physical PCI device and a crafted sequence of XEN_PCI_OP_*

operations, aka "Linux pciback missing sanity checks (bsc#957990).

- CVE-2015-8551: The pci backend driver in Xen, when running on an x86

system and using Linux 3.1.x through 4.3.x as the driver domain, allowed

local guest administrators to hit BUG conditions and cause a denial of

service (NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash) by leveraging a

system with access to a passed-through MSI or MSI-X capable physical PCI

device and a crafted sequence of XEN_PCI_OP_* operations, aka "Linux

pciback missing sanity checks (bnc#957990).

- CVE-2015-8552: The PCI backend driver in Xen, when running on an x86

system, allowed local guest administrators to generate a continuous

stream of WARN messages and cause a denial of service (disk consumption)

by leveraging a system with access to a passed-through MSI or MSI-X

capable physical PCI device and XEN_PCI_OP_enable_msi operations, aka

"Linux pciback missing sanity checks (bsc#957990).

- CVE-2015-8552: The pci backend driver in Xen, when running on an x86

system and using Linux 3.1.x through 4.3.x as the driver domain, allowed

local guest administrators to generate a continuous stream

of WARN messages and cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by

leveraging a system with access to a passed-through MSI or MSI-X

capable physical PCI device and XEN_PCI_OP_enable_msi operations, aka

"Linux pciback missing sanity checks (bnc#957990).

- CVE-2015-8709: ** DISPUTED ** kernel/ptrace.c in the Linux kernel

mishandles uid and gid mappings, which allowed local users to gain

privileges by establishing a user namespace, waiting for a root process

to enter that namespace with an unsafe uid or gid, and then using the

ptrace system call. Upstream states that there is no kernel bug here

(bnc#960561).

- CVE-2015-8785: The fuse_fill_write_pages function in fs/fuse/file.c

allowed local users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a

writev system call that triggers a zero length for the first segment of

an iov (bsc#963765).

- CVE-2015-8812: drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_cm.c did not properly

identify error conditions, which allowed remote attackers to execute

arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) via crafted

packets (bsc#966437).

- CVE-2015-8816: The hub_activate function in drivers/usb/core/hub.c did

not properly maintain a hub-interface data structure, which allowed

physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid

memory access and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other

impact by unplugging a USB hub device (bsc#968010).

- CVE-2015-8816: The hub_activate function in drivers/usb/core/hub.c in

the Linux kernel did not properly maintain a hub-interface data

structure, which allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a

denial of service (invalid memory access and system crash) or possibly

have unspecified

other impact by unplugging a USB hub device (bnc#968010).

- CVE-2016-0723: Race condition in the tty_ioctl function in

drivers/tty/tty_io.c allowed local users to obtain sensitive information

from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (use-after-free and

system crash) by making a TIOCGETD ioctl call during processing of a

TIOCSETD ioctl call (bsc#961500).

- CVE-2016-2143: The fork implementation in the Linux kernel on s390

platforms mishandles the case of four page-table levels, which allowed

local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have

unspecified other impact via a crafted application, related to

arch/s390/include/asm/mmu_context.h and arch/s390/include/asm/pgalloc.h.

(bnc#970504)

- CVE-2016-2143: The fork implementation on s390 platforms mishandles the

case of four page-table levels, which allowed local users to cause a

denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other

impact via a crafted application, related to

arch/s390/include/asm/mmu_context.h and arch/s390/include/asm/pgalloc.h

(bsc#970504).

- CVE-2016-2184: The create_fixed_stream_quirk function in

sound/usb/quirks.c in the snd-usb-audio driver allowed physically

proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer

dereference

or double free, and system crash) via a crafted endpoints value in a USB

device descriptor (bsc#971125).

- CVE-2016-2184: The create_fixed_stream_quirk function in

sound/usb/quirks.c in the snd-usb-audio driver in the Linux kernel

allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service

(NULL pointer dereference or double free, and system crash) via a

crafted endpoints value in a USB device descriptor (bnc#971125).

- CVE-2016-2185: The ati_remote2_probe function in

drivers/input/misc/ati_remote2.c allowed physically proximate attackers

to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash)

via a crafted endpoints value in a USB device descriptor (bsc#971124).

- CVE-2016-2185: The ati_remote2_probe function in

drivers/input/misc/ati_remote2.c in the Linux kernel allowed physically

proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer

dereference and system crash) via a crafted endpoints value in a USB

device descriptor (bnc#971124).

- CVE-2016-2186: The powermate_probe function in

drivers/input/misc/powermate.c allowed physically proximate attackers to

cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash)

via a crafted endpoints value in a USB device descriptor (bsc#970958).

- CVE-2016-2186: The powermate_probe function in

drivers/input/misc/powermate.c in the Linux kernel allowed physically

proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer

dereference and system crash) via a crafted endpoints value in a USB

device descriptor (bnc#970958).

- CVE-2016-2188: The iowarrior_probe function in

drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.c allowed physically proximate attackers to

cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash)

via a crafted endpoints value in a USB device descriptor (bsc#970956).

- CVE-2016-2188: The iowarrior_probe function in

drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.c in the Linux kernel allowed physically

proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer

dereference and system crash) via a crafted endpoints value in a USB

device descriptor (bnc#970956).

- CVE-2016-2384: Double free vulnerability in the snd_usbmidi_create

function in sound/usb/midi.c allowed physically proximate attackers to

cause a denial of service (panic) or possibly have unspecified other

impact via vectors involving an invalid USB descriptor (bsc#966693).

- CVE-2016-2782: The treo_attach function in drivers/usb/serial/visor.c

allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service

(NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified

other impact by inserting a USB device that lacks a (1) bulk-in or (2)

interrupt-in endpoint (bsc#968670).

- CVE-2016-3134: The netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel did not

validate certain offset fields, which allowed local users to gain

privileges or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via an

IPT_SO_SET_REPLACE setsockopt call (bnc#971126).

- CVE-2016-3136: The mct_u232_msr_to_state function in

drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c allowed physically proximate attackers to

cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash)

via a crafted USB device without two interrupt-in endpoint descriptors

(bsc#970955).

- CVE-2016-3136: The mct_u232_msr_to_state function in

drivers/usb/serial/mct_u232.c in the Linux kernel allowed physically

proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer

dereference and system crash) via a crafted USB device without two

interrupt-in endpoint descriptors (bnc#970955).

- CVE-2016-3137: drivers/usb/serial/cypress_m8.c allowed physically

proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer

dereference and system crash) via a USB device without both an

interrupt-in and an interrupt-out endpoint descriptor, related to the

cypress_generic_port_probe and cypress_open functions (bsc#970970).

- CVE-2016-3137: drivers/usb/serial/cypress_m8.c in the Linux kernel

allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service

(NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a USB device without

both an interrupt-in and an interrupt-out endpoint descriptor, related

to the cypress_generic_port_probe and cypress_open functions

(bnc#970970).

- CVE-2016-3138: The acm_probe function in drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c

allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service

(NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a USB device without

both a control and a data endpoint descriptor (bsc#970911).

- CVE-2016-3138: The acm_probe function in drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c in

the Linux kernel allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a

denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a USB

device without both a control and a data endpoint descriptor

(bnc#970911).

- CVE-2016-3139: The wacom_probe function in

drivers/input/tablet/wacom_sys.c in the Linux kernel allowed physically

proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer

dereference and system crash) via a crafted endpoints value in a USB

device descriptor (bnc#970909).

- CVE-2016-3140: The digi_port_init function in

drivers/usb/serial/digi_acceleport.c allowed physically proximate

attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and

system crash) via a crafted endpoints value in a USB device descriptor

(bsc#970892).

- CVE-2016-3140: The digi_port_init function in

drivers/usb/serial/digi_acceleport.c in the Linux kernel allowed

physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL

pointer dereference and system crash) via a crafted endpoints value in a

USB device descriptor (bnc#970892).

- CVE-2016-3156: The IPv4 implementation in the Linux kernel mishandles

destruction of device objects, which allowed guest OS users to cause a

denial of service (host OS networking outage) by arranging for a large

number of IP addresses (bnc#971360).

- CVE-2016-3156: The IPv4 implementation mishandled destruction of device

objects, which allowed guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host

OS networking outage) by arranging for a large number of IP addresses

(bsc#971360).

- CVE-2016-3689: The ims_pcu_parse_cdc_data function in

drivers/input/misc/ims-pcu.c allowed physically proximate attackers to

cause a denial of service (system crash) via a USB device without both a

master and a slave interface (bsc#971628).

- CVE-2016-3689: The ims_pcu_parse_cdc_data function in

drivers/input/misc/ims-pcu.c in the Linux kernel allowed physically

proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a

USB device without both a master and a slave interface (bnc#971628).

- CVE-2016-3707: A ICMP echo feature hooked to sysrq was removed, which

could have allowed remote attackers to reboot / halt the machine.

- CVE-2016-3951: Double free vulnerability in drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c in

the Linux kernel allowed physically proximate attackers to cause a denial

of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by

inserting a USB device with an invalid USB descriptor (bnc#974418).

 

The following non-security bugs were fixed:

- acpi: Disable ACPI table override when UEFI Secure Boot is enabled

(bsc#970604).

- acpi: Disable APEI error injection if securelevel is set (bsc#972891).

- alsa: rawmidi: Make snd_rawmidi_transmit() race-free (bsc#968018).

- alsa: seq: Fix leak of pool buffer at concurrent writes (bsc#968018).

- alsa: timer: Call notifier in the same spinlock (bsc#973378).

- alsa: timer: Protect the whole snd_timer_close() with open race

(bsc#973378).

- alsa: timer: Sync timer deletion at closing the system timer

(bsc#973378).

- alsa: timer: Use mod_timer() for rearming the system timer (bsc#973378).

- apparmor: Skip proc ns files (bsc#959514).

- block: xen-blkfront: Fix possible NULL ptr dereference (bsc#957986

fate#320625).

- btrfs: Account data space in more proper timin: (bsc#963193).

- btrfs: Add handler for invalidate page (bsc#963193).

- Btrfs: check prepare_uptodate_page() error code earlier (bnc#966910).

- btrfs: delayed_ref: Add new function to record reserved space into

delayed ref (bsc#963193).

- btrfs: delayed_ref: release and free qgroup reserved at proper timing

(bsc#963193).

- btrfs: extent_io: Introduce needed structure for recoding set/clear bits

(bsc#963193).

- btrfs: extent_io: Introduce new function clear_record_extent_bits()

(bsc#963193).

- btrfs: extent_io: Introduce new function set_record_extent_bits

(bsc#963193).

- btrfs: extent-tree: Add new version of btrfs_check_data_free_space and

btrfs_free_reserved_data_space (bsc#963193).

- btrfs: extent-tree: Add new version of

btrfs_delalloc_reserve/release_space (bsc#963193).

- btrfs: extent-tree: Switch to new check_data_free_space and

free_reserved_data_space (bsc#963193).

- btrfs: extent-tree: Switch to new delalloc space reserve and release

(bsc#963193).

- btrfs: fallocate: Add support to accurate qgroup reserve (bsc#963193).

- Btrfs: fix deadlock between direct IO reads and buffered writes

(bsc#973855).

- Btrfs: fix invalid page accesses in extent_same (dedup) ioctl

(bnc#968230).

- Btrfs: fix loading of orphan roots leading to BUG_ON (bsc#972844).

- Btrfs: fix page reading in extent_same ioctl leading to csum errors

(bnc#968230).

- btrfs: handle non-fatal errors in btrfs_qgroup_inherit() (bsc#972951).

- btrfs: qgroup: Add handler for NOCOW and inline (bsc#963193).

- btrfs: qgroup: Add new trace point for qgroup data reserve (bsc#963193).

- btrfs: qgroup: Avoid calling btrfs_free_reserved_data_space in

clear_bit_hook (bsc#963193).

- btrfs: qgroup: Check if qgroup reserved space leaked (bsc#963193).

- btrfs: qgroup: Cleanup old inaccurate facilities (bsc#963193).

- btrfs: qgroup: Fix a race in delayed_ref which leads to abort trans

(bsc#963193).

- btrfs: qgroup: Fix a rebase bug which will cause qgroup double free

(bsc#963193).

- btrfs: qgroup: Fix dead judgement on qgroup_rescan_leaf() return value

(bsc#969439).

- btrfs: qgroup: Introduce btrfs_qgroup_reserve_data function (bsc#963193).

- btrfs: qgroup: Introduce functions to release/free qgroup reserve data

space (bsc#963193).

- btrfs: qgroup: Introduce new functions to reserve/free metadata

(bsc#963193).

- btrfs: qgroup: return EINVAL if level of parent is not higher than

child's (bsc#972951).

- btrfs: qgroup: Use new metadata reservation (bsc#963193).

- Btrfs: teach backref walking about backrefs with underflowed offset

values (bsc#975371).

- dasd: fix hanging system after LCU changes (bnc#968497, LTC#136671).

- dmapi: fix dm_open_by_handle_rvp taking an extra ref to mnt (bsc#967292).

- drivers/base/memory.c: fix kernel warning during memory hotplug on ppc64

(bsc#963827).

- drivers: hv: Allow for MMIO claims that span ACPI _CRS records

(bnc#965924).

- drivers: hv: Define the channel type for Hyper-V pci Express

pass-through (bnc#965924).

- drivers: hv: Export a function that maps Linux CPU num onto Hyper-V proc

num (bnc#965924).

- drivers: hv: Export the API to invoke a hypercall on Hyper-V

(bnc#965924).

- drivers: hv: kvp: fix IP Failover.

- drivers: pci:hv: New paravirtual pci front-end for Hyper-V VMs

(bnc#965924).

- drivers: xen-blkfront: move talk_to_blkback to a more suitable place

(bsc#957986 fate#320625).

- drivers: xen-blkfront: only talk_to_blkback() when in

XenbusStateInitialising (bsc#957986 fate#320625).

- drm/core: Preserve the framebuffer after removing it (bsc#968812).

- drm/i915: do not warn if backlight unexpectedly enabled (boo#972068).

- drm/i915: set backlight duty cycle after backlight enable for gen4

(boo#972780).

- drm/radeon: fix-up some float to fixed conversion thinkos (bsc#968813).

- drm/radeon: use HDP_MEM_COHERENCY_FLUSH_CNTL for sdma as well

(bsc#968813).

- e1000e: Avoid divide by zero error (bsc#968643).

- e1000e: fix division by zero on jumbo MTUs (bsc#968643).

- e1000e: Fix tight loop implementation of systime read algorithm

(bsc#968643).

- ext4: fix: print ext4 mountopt data_err=abort correctly (bsc#969735).

- ext4: fix races between page faults and hole punching (bsc#972174).

- ext4: fix races of writeback with punch hole and zero range (bsc#972174).

- ext4: Fix softlockups in SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA implementations

(bsc#942262).

- Fix preemptible_lazy() unused function warning for compute flavor

- fs/pipe.c: skip file_update_time on frozen fs (bsc#975488).

- fs/proc_namespace.c: simplify testing nsp and nsp->mnt_ns

(bug#963960).

- fs, seqfile: always allow oom killer (bnc#968687).

- fs, seq_file: fallback to vmalloc instead of oom kill processes

(bnc#968687).

- futex: Drop refcount if requeue_pi() acquired the rtmutex (bug#960174).

- hv: Lock access to hyperv_mmio resource tree (bnc#965924).

- hv: Make a function to free mmio regions through vmbus (bnc#965924).

- hv: Reverse order of resources in hyperv_mmio (bnc#965924).

- hv: Track allocations of children of hv_vmbus in private resource tree

(bnc#965924).

- hv: Use new vmbus_mmio_free() from client drivers (bnc#965924).

- hwmon: (coretemp) Increase maximum core to 128 (bsc#970160)

- hyperv: Add mainline tags to some hyperv patches

- ibmvnic: Fix ibmvnic_capability struct (fate#320253).

- ibmvscsi: Remove unsupported host config MAD (bsc#973556).

- Ignore efivar_validate kabi failures -- it's an EFI internal function.

- intel_pstate: Use del_timer_sync in intel_pstate_cpu_stop (bsc#967650).

- iommu/vt-d: Improve fault handler error messages (bsc#975772).

- iommu/vt-d: Ratelimit fault handler (bsc#975772).

- ipv6: make fib6 serial number per namespace (bsc#965319).

- ipv6: mld: fix add_grhead skb_over_panic for devs with large MTUs

(bsc#956852).

- ipv6: per netns fib6 walkers (bsc#965319).

- ipv6: per netns FIB garbage collection (bsc#965319).

- ipv6: replace global gc_args with local variable (bsc#965319).

- kabi fix for patches.fixes/reduce-m_start-cost (bsc#966573).

- kabi: kgr, add reserved fields (fate#313296).

- kABI: kgr: fix subtle race with kgr_module_init(), going notifier and

kgr_modify_kernel().

- kabi: Preserve checksum of kvm_x86_ops (bsc#969112).

- kABI: protect enum enclosure_component_type.

- kABI: protect function file_open_root.

- kABI: protect struct af_alg_type.

- kABI: protect struct crypto_ahash.

- kABI: protect struct dm_exception_store_type.

- kABI: protect struct fib_nh_exception.

- kABI: protect struct module.

- kabi: protect struct netns_ipv6 after FIB6 GC series (bsc#965319).

- kABI: protect struct rq.

- kABI: protect struct sched_class.

- kABI: protect struct scm_creds.

- kABI: protect struct user_struct.

- kabi/severities:

- kabi/severities: Fail on changes in kvm_x86_ops, needed by lttng-modules

- kgr: add kgraft annotations to kthreads' wait_event_freezable() API

calls (fate#313296).

- kgr: add kgraft annotation to hwrng kthread (fate#313296).

- kgr: add objname to kgr_patch_fun struct (fate#313296).

- kgr: add sympos and objname to error and debug messages (fate#313296).

- kgr: add sympos as disambiguator field to kgr_patch_fun structure

(fate#313296).

- kgr: add sympos to sysfs (fate#313296).

- kgr: add TAINT_KGRAFT (fate#313296).

- kgr: call kgr_init_ftrace_ops() only for loaded objects (fate#313296).

- kgr: change to kallsyms_on_each_symbol iterator (fate#313296).

- kgr: define pr_fmt and modify all pr_* messages (fate#313296).

- kgr: do not print error for !abort_if_missing symbols (bnc#943989).

- kgr: do not return and print an error only if the object is not loaded

(fate#313296).

- kgr: do not use WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueue (bnc#963572).

- kgr: fix an asymmetric dealing with delayed module loading (fate#313296).

- kgr: fix redirection on s390x arch (bsc#903279).

- kgr: fix reversion of a patch already reverted by a replace_all patch

(fate#313296).

- kgr: fix reversion of a patch already reverted by a replace_all patch

(fate#313296).

- kgr: fix subtle race with kgr_module_init(), going notifier and

kgr_modify_kernel() (fate#313296).

- kgr: handle btrfs kthreads (fate#313296 bnc#889207).

- kgr: kmemleak, really mark the kthread safe after an interrupt

(fate#313296).

- kgr: kmemleak, really mark the kthread safe after an interrupt

(fate#313296).

- kgr: log when modifying kernel (fate#317827).

- kgr: mark kernel unsupported upon patch revert (fate#313296).

- kgr: mark some more missed kthreads (bnc#962336).

- kgr: remove abort_if_missing flag (fate#313296).

- kgr: usb/storage: do not emit thread awakened (bnc#899908).

- kvm: SVM: add rdmsr support for AMD event registers (bsc#968448).

- kvm: x86: Check dest_map->vector to match eoi signals for rtc

(bsc#966471).

- kvm: x86: Convert ioapic->rtc_status.dest_map to a struct

(bsc#966471).

- kvm: x86: store IOAPIC-handled vectors in each VCPU (bsc#966471).

- kvm: x86: Track irq vectors in ioapic->rtc_status.dest_map

(bsc#966471).

- libceph: fix scatterlist last_piece calculation (bsc#963746).

- lpfc: Fix kmalloc overflow in LPFC driver at large core count

(bsc#969690).

- memcg: do not hang on OOM when killed by userspace OOM access to memory

reserves (bnc#969571).

- mld, igmp: Fix reserved tailroom calculation (bsc#956852).

- mmc: Allow forward compatibility for eMMC (bnc#966054).

- mm: reduce m_start() cost.. (bsc#966573).

- namespaces: Re-introduce task_nsproxy() helper (bug#963960).

- namespaces: Use task_lock and not rcu to protect nsproxy (bug#963960).

- net: core: Correct an over-stringent device loop detection (bsc#945219).

- net: irda: Fix use-after-free in irtty_open() (bnc#967903).

- nfs4: treat lock owners as opaque values (bnc#968141).

- nfsd: fix nfsd_setattr return code for HSM (bsc#969992).

- nfs: Fix handling of re-write-before-commit for mmapped NFS pages

(bsc#964201).

- nfs: fix high load average due to callback thread sleeping (bsc#971170).

- nfs: Fix problem with setting ACL on directories (bsc#967251).

- nfs-rdma: Fix for FMR leaks (bsc#908151).

- nfsv4.1: do not use machine credentials for CLOSE when using 'sec=sys'

(bsc#972003).

- nvme: default to 4k device page size (bsc#967047).

- nvme: special case AEN requests (bsc#965087).

- pci: Add global pci_lock_rescan_remove() (bnc#965924).

- pci/AER: Fix aer_inject error codes (bsc#931448).

- pci/AER: Log actual error causes in aer_inject (bsc#931448).

- pci/AER: Log aer_inject error injections (bsc#931448).

- pci/AER: Use dev_warn() in aer_inject (bsc#931448).

- pci: allow access to VPD attributes with size '0' (bsc#959146).

- pciback: Check PF instead of VF for pci_COMMAND_MEMORY.

- pciback: Save the number of MSI-X entries to be copied later.

- pci: Blacklist vpd access for buggy devices (bsc#959146).

- pci: Determine actual VPD size on first access (bsc#959146).

- pci: Export symbols required for loadable host driver modules

(bnc#965924).

- pci: pciehp: Disable link notification across slot reset (bsc#967651).

- pci: pciehp: Do not check adapter or latch status while disabling

(bsc#967651).

- pci: pciehp: Do not disable the link permanently during removal

(bsc#967651).

- pci: pciehp: Ensure very fast hotplug events are also processed

(bsc#967651).

- pci: Update VPD definitions (bsc#959146).

- perf, nmi: Fix unknown NMI warning (bsc#968512).

- pipe: limit the per-user amount of pages allocated in pipes (bsc#970948).

- printk: fix scheduling while atomic bug while oom testing (bnc#965153)

- proc: Fix ptrace-based permission checks for accessing task maps.

- qla2xxx: Remove unavailable firmware files (bsc#943645).

- rbd: do not log miscompare as an error (bsc#970062).

- rbd: use GFP_NOIO consistently for request allocations (bsc#971159).

- RDMA/ocrdma: Avoid reporting wrong completions in case of error CQEs

(bsc#908151).

- Remove now unneeded (thus harmful) -rt74

probe_wakeup_latency_hist_start() prototype fix.

- Remove superfluous Git-commit header from

patches.fixes/0001-namespaces-Re-introduce-task_nsproxy-helper.patch.

- Remove VIOSRP_HOST_CONFIG_TYPE from ibmvstgt.c in

patches.fixes/0001-ibmvscsi-remove-unsupported-host-config-mad.patch. as

well.

- resources: Set type in __request_region() (bnc#965924).

- Restore kabi after lock-owner change.

- Restore try_get_online_cpus() lockdep annotation dropped by commit

d1811e3c

- Revert "libata: Align ata_device's id on a cacheline".

- Revert "net/ipv6: add sysctl option accept_ra_min_hop_limit".

- rpm/kernel-binary.spec.in: Sync the main and -base package dependencies

(bsc#965830#c51).

- rpm/kernel-module-subpackage: Fix obsoleting dropped flavors (bsc#968253)

- s390/compat: correct restore of high gprs on signal return (bnc#968497,

LTC#137571).

- s390/pageattr: do a single TLB flush for change_page_attr (bsc#940413).

- s390/zcrypt: HWRNG registration cause kernel panic on CEX hotplug

(bnc#968497, LTC#138409).

- scsi: Add intermediate STARGET_REMOVE state to scsi_target_state

(bsc#970609).

- scsi: fix soft lockup in scsi_remove_target() on module removal

(bsc#965199).

- scsi: proper state checking and module refcount handling in

scsi_device_get (boo#966831).

- series.conf: add section comments

- SUNRPC: Fix large reads on NFS/RDMA (bsc#908151).

- SUNRPC: remove KERN_INFO from dprintk() call sites (bsc#908151).

- supported.conf: Add bridge.ko for OpenStack (bsc#971600)

- supported.conf:Add drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma.ko to

supported.conf (bsc#964461)

- supported.conf: Add e1000e (emulated by VMware) to -base (bsc#968074)

- supported.conf: Add Hyper-V modules to -base (bsc#965830)

- supported.conf: Add isofs to -base (bsc#969655).

- supported.conf: Add more qemu device driver (bsc#968234)

- supported.conf: Add mptspi and mptsas to -base (bsc#968206)

- supported.conf: add pci-hyperv

- supported.conf: Add the qemu scsi driver (sym53c8xx) to -base

(bsc#967802)

- supported.conf: Add tulip to -base for Hyper-V (bsc#968234)

- supported.conf: Add xen-blkfront.

- svcrdma: advertise the correct max payload (bsc#908151).

- svcrdma: Fence LOCAL_INV work requests (bsc#908151).

- svcrdma: fix offset calculation for non-page aligned sge entries

(bsc#908151).

- svcrdma: fix printk when memory allocation fails (bsc#908151).

- svcrdma: refactor marshalling logic (bsc#908151).

- svcrdma: send_write() must not overflow the device's max sge

(bsc#908151).

- target: Drop incorrect ABORT_TASK put for completed commands

(bsc#962872).

- target: Fix LUN_RESET active I/O handling for ACK_KREF (bsc#962872).

- target: Fix LUN_RESET active TMR descriptor handling (bsc#962872).

- target: Fix race with SCF_SEND_DELAYED_TAS handling (bsc#962872).

- target: Fix remote-port TMR ABORT + se_cmd fabric stop (bsc#962872).

- target: Fix TAS handling for multi-session se_node_acls (bsc#962872).

- tcp: convert cached rtt from usec to jiffies when feeding initial rto

(bsc#937086).

- tcp: Restore RFC5961-compliant behavior for SYN packets (bsc#966864).

- tracing: Fix probe_wakeup_latency_hist_start() prototype ( -at -) stable-rt

cf1dd658fc10b2c34988cd27942fac0d94cb4b5f removed 'success` from trace

prototypes, but missed probe_wakeup_latency_hist_start().

- Update

patches.drivers/drm-ast-Initialize-data-needed-to-map-fbdev-memory.patch

(bnc#880007). Fix refs and upstream status.

- Update patches.suse/kgr-0102-add-TAINT_KGRAFT.patch (fate#313296

bsc#974406).

- usb: Quiet down false peer failure messages (bnc#960629).

- USB: usbip: fix potential out-of-bounds write (bnc#975945).

- x86: export x86_msi (bnc#965924).

- xen: Add /etc/modprobe.d/50-xen.conf selecting Xen frontend driver

implementation (bsc#957986, bsc#956084, bsc#961658).

- xen-blkfront: allow building in our Xen environment (bsc#957986

fate#320625).

- xen, blkfront: factor out flush-related checks from do_blkif_request()

(bsc#957986 fate#320625).

- xen-blkfront: fix accounting of reqs when migrating (bsc#957986

fate#320625).

- xen/blkfront: Fix crash if backend does not follow the right states

(bsc#957986 fate#320625).

- xen-blkfront: improve aproximation of required grants per request

(bsc#957986 fate#320625).

- xen/blkfront: improve protection against issuing unsupported REQ_FUA

(bsc#957986 fate#320625).

- xen/blkfront: remove redundant flush_op (bsc#957986 fate#320625).

- xen-blkfront: remove type check from blkfront_setup_discard (bsc#957986

fate#320625).

- xen-blkfront: Silence pfn maybe-uninitialized warning (bsc#957986

fate#320625).

- xen-vscsi-large-requests: Fix resource collision for racing request maps

and unmaps (bsc#966094).

- xfs/dmapi: drop lock over synchronous XFS_SEND_DATA events (bsc#969993).

- xfs/dmapi: propertly send postcreate event (bsc#967299).

- xprtrdma: Allocate missing pagelist (bsc#908151).

- xprtrdma: Avoid deadlock when credit window is reset (bsc#908151).

- xprtrdma: Disconnect on registration failure (bsc#908151).

- xprtrdma: Ensure ia->ri_id->qp is not NULL when reconnecting

(bsc#908151).

- xprtrdma: Fall back to MTHCAFMR when FRMR is not supported (bsc#908151).

- xprtrdma: Limit work done by completion handler (bsc#908151).

- xprtrdma: Make rpcrdma_ep_destroy() return void (bsc#908151).

- xprtrdma: mind the device's max fast register page list depth

(bsc#908151).

- xprtrdma: mount reports "Invalid mount option" if memreg mode not

supported (bsc#908151).

- xprtrdma: Reduce the number of hardway buffer allocations (bsc#908151).

- xprtrdma: Remove BOUNCEBUFFERS memory registration mode (bsc#908151).

- xprtrdma: Remove BUG_ON() call sites (bsc#908151).

- xprtrdma: Remove MEMWINDOWS registration modes (bsc#908151).

- xprtrdma: Remove REGISTER memory registration mode (bsc#908151).

- xprtrdma: Remove Tavor MTU setting (bsc#908151).

- xprtrdma: Reset connection timeout after successful reconnect

(bsc#908151).

- xprtrdma: RPC/RDMA must invoke xprt_wake_pending_tasks() in process

context (bsc#908151).

- xprtrdma: Simplify rpcrdma_deregister_external() synopsis (bsc#908151).

- xprtrdma: Split the completion queue (bsc#908151).

- xprtrdma: Use macros for reconnection timeout constants (bsc#908151).

- xprtrmda: Reduce calls to ib_poll_cq() in completion handlers

(bsc#908151).

- xprtrmda: Reduce lock contention in completion handlers (bsc#908151).

 

 

Patch Instructions:

 

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension 12-SP1:

 

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-RT-12-SP1-2016-1038=1

 

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

 

 

Package List:

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension 12-SP1 (x86_64):

 

kernel-compute-3.12.58-14.1

kernel-compute-base-3.12.58-14.1

kernel-compute-base-debuginfo-3.12.58-14.1

kernel-compute-debuginfo-3.12.58-14.1

kernel-compute-debugsource-3.12.58-14.1

kernel-compute-devel-3.12.58-14.1

kernel-compute_debug-debuginfo-3.12.58-14.1

kernel-compute_debug-debugsource-3.12.58-14.1

kernel-compute_debug-devel-3.12.58-14.1

kernel-compute_debug-devel-debuginfo-3.12.58-14.1

kernel-rt-3.12.58-14.1

kernel-rt-base-3.12.58-14.1

kernel-rt-base-debuginfo-3.12.58-14.1

kernel-rt-debuginfo-3.12.58-14.1

kernel-rt-debugsource-3.12.58-14.1

kernel-rt-devel-3.12.58-14.1

kernel-rt_debug-debuginfo-3.12.58-14.1

kernel-rt_debug-debugsource-3.12.58-14.1

kernel-rt_debug-devel-3.12.58-14.1

kernel-rt_debug-devel-debuginfo-3.12.58-14.1

kernel-syms-rt-3.12.58-14.1

 

- SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension 12-SP1 (noarch):

 

kernel-devel-rt-3.12.58-14.1

kernel-source-rt-3.12.58-14.1

 

 

References:

 

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7566.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8550.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8551.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8552.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8709.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8785.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8812.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8816.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-0723.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2143.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2184.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2185.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2186.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2188.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2384.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2782.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3134.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3136.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3137.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3138.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3139.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3140.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3156.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3689.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3707.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-3951.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/880007

https://bugzilla.suse.com/889207

https://bugzilla.suse.com/899908

https://bugzilla.suse.com/903279

https://bugzilla.suse.com/908151

https://bugzilla.suse.com/931448

https://bugzilla.suse.com/937086

https://bugzilla.suse.com/940413

https://bugzilla.suse.com/942262

https://bugzilla.suse.com/943645

https://bugzilla.suse.com/943989

https://bugzilla.suse.com/945219

https://bugzilla.suse.com/956084

https://bugzilla.suse.com/956852

https://bugzilla.suse.com/957986

https://bugzilla.suse.com/957988

https://bugzilla.suse.com/957990

https://bugzilla.suse.com/959146

https://bugzilla.suse.com/959514

https://bugzilla.suse.com/959709

https://bugzilla.suse.com/960174

https://bugzilla.suse.com/960561

https://bugzilla.suse.com/960629

https://bugzilla.suse.com/961500

https://bugzilla.suse.com/961512

https://bugzilla.suse.com/961658

https://bugzilla.suse.com/962336

https://bugzilla.suse.com/962872

https://bugzilla.suse.com/963193

https://bugzilla.suse.com/963572

https://bugzilla.suse.com/963746

https://bugzilla.suse.com/963765

https://bugzilla.suse.com/963827

https://bugzilla.suse.com/963960

https://bugzilla.suse.com/964201

https://bugzilla.suse.com/964461

https://bugzilla.suse.com/965087

https://bugzilla.suse.com/965153

https://bugzilla.suse.com/965199

https://bugzilla.suse.com/965319

https://bugzilla.suse.com/965830

https://bugzilla.suse.com/965924

https://bugzilla.suse.com/966054

https://bugzilla.suse.com/966094

https://bugzilla.suse.com/966437

https://bugzilla.suse.com/966471

https://bugzilla.suse.com/966573

https://bugzilla.suse.com/966693

https://bugzilla.suse.com/966831

https://bugzilla.suse.com/966864

https://bugzilla.suse.com/966910

https://bugzilla.suse.com/967047

https://bugzilla.suse.com/967251

https://bugzilla.suse.com/967292

https://bugzilla.suse.com/967299

https://bugzilla.suse.com/967650

https://bugzilla.suse.com/967651

https://bugzilla.suse.com/967802

https://bugzilla.suse.com/967903

https://bugzilla.suse.com/968010

https://bugzilla.suse.com/968018

https://bugzilla.suse.com/968074

https://bugzilla.suse.com/968141

https://bugzilla.suse.com/968206

https://bugzilla.suse.com/968230

https://bugzilla.suse.com/968234

https://bugzilla.suse.com/968253

https://bugzilla.suse.com/968448

https://bugzilla.suse.com/968497

https://bugzilla.suse.com/968512

https://bugzilla.suse.com/968643

https://bugzilla.suse.com/968670

https://bugzilla.suse.com/968687

https://bugzilla.suse.com/968812

https://bugzilla.suse.com/968813

https://bugzilla.suse.com/969112

https://bugzilla.suse.com/969439

https://bugzilla.suse.com/969571

https://bugzilla.suse.com/969655

https://bugzilla.suse.com/969690

https://bugzilla.suse.com/969735

https://bugzilla.suse.com/969992

https://bugzilla.suse.com/969993

https://bugzilla.suse.com/970062

https://bugzilla.suse.com/970160

https://bugzilla.suse.com/970504

https://bugzilla.suse.com/970604

https://bugzilla.suse.com/970609

https://bugzilla.suse.com/970892

https://bugzilla.suse.com/970909

https://bugzilla.suse.com/970911

https://bugzilla.suse.com/970948

https://bugzilla.suse.com/970955

https://bugzilla.suse.com/970956

https://bugzilla.suse.com/970958

https://bugzilla.suse.com/970970

https://bugzilla.suse.com/971124

https://bugzilla.suse.com/971125

https://bugzilla.suse.com/971126

https://bugzilla.suse.com/971159

https://bugzilla.suse.com/971170

https://bugzilla.suse.com/971360

https://bugzilla.suse.com/971600

https://bugzilla.suse.com/971628

https://bugzilla.suse.com/972003

https://bugzilla.suse.com/972068

https://bugzilla.suse.com/972174

https://bugzilla.suse.com/972780

https://bugzilla.suse.com/972844

https://bugzilla.suse.com/972891

https://bugzilla.suse.com/972951

https://bugzilla.suse.com/973378

https://bugzilla.suse.com/973556

https://bugzilla.suse.com/973855

https://bugzilla.suse.com/974406

https://bugzilla.suse.com/974418

https://bugzilla.suse.com/975371

https://bugzilla.suse.com/975488

https://bugzilla.suse.com/975772

https://bugzilla.suse.com/975945

https://bugzilla.suse.com/980246

 

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