Recommended update for Linux kernel
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(Last modified: 10NOV2005)
solutions Recommended update for Linux kernel SuSE Linux Maintenance Web (39d3a319135937cd895f18392d3ae369)
kernel-source
kernel-syms
Product(s): SUSE CORE 9 for IBM zSeries 64bit
Patch: patch-10569
Release: 20051110
Obsoletes: 17b472d8726ee7e9fa73b9a5cdb787ff
- avoid potential fs corruption in smp (129011)
- patches.suse/ocfs2-configfs-20051012: LVB fixes in the DLM.
- OCFS2 Fix bio leak and mtime bug when using LVBs to communicate.
- Fix crash while reading /proc/net/route caused by stale pointers (100210).
- add missing sockfd_put() in routing_ioctl() (117169).
- fix 64 bit issue in ipt_recent (116094).
- fix memory leak in sg driver (113224).
- fix kernel sendmsg() overflow (114364).
- OCFS2 and configfs update to 1.0.5.
- Fix crbce race on task ce_data (104567).
- Provide access to tgid through ckrm crbce module (114840).
- fix nfs xfs_iget shutdown (102531, SGI:PV941429).
- Avoid deadlock in get_user_pages. (102625)
- direct IO write memory leak fix (113301).
- reiserfs endianness: fix endianness bugs (112857)
- Solaris VxFS compatibility fix (102323).
- fix racey pbflags accesses (65392, SGI:PV923981).
- OCFS2 Fixes an important heartbeat timeout condition.
- XFS transbrelse quota fix (104097, SGI:PV940366).
- XFS fix missed quotachecks (104921, SGI:PV940491).
- NFS: fix string decoding in lockd (105064).
- IP: Fix IP dst cache overruns (56830).
Patchcluster 27
- QETH new function: packet sequence numbers in layer2 mode.
- Problem-ID: 18161 - ctcmpc: Missing skb reference.
- Problem-ID: 17661 - kernel: pfault interrupt race.
- Problem-ID: 17469 - kernel: spin lock re-try.
- Problem-ID: 15666 - SCSI device offlined although multipath is used.
- Problem-ID: 17782 - zfcp: Kernel Oops during cable pull.
- qeth new function: Linux NCP CDLC support via OSA.
- Problem-ID: 18894 - kernel: Function 'test_bit' returns non-boolean values.
- Problem-ID: 18809 - kernel: Incorrect PSW check can lead to kernel stack corruption.
- Problem-ID: 18679 - kernel: Remove PAGEX pseudo page fault code.
- Problem-ID: 18603 - qeth: OSA for NCP recovery failure
- Problem-ID: 19357 - qeth: Traffic hang due to missing outstanding PCI on output queue.
- Problem-ID: 19349 - vmcp: Kernel crash after long vmcp command.
- Problem-ID: 19040 - z90crypt: CEX2A cards are offlined with certain messages.
- Problem-ID: 19172 - zfcp: FCP adapter is re-opened during adapter firmware update.
rpm -Fvh kernel-s390x.rpm kernel-source.rpm kernel-syms.rpm
zipl
Finally, reboot the system with
shutdown -r now
to load the new kernel (replace "now" with the appropriate amount of time to allow local users to cleanly log out, for example "+5" for five minutes.)
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