The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Security Fix(es):
kernel: locking issue in drivers/tty/tty_jobctrl.c can lead to an use-after-free (CVE-2020-29661)
kernel: performance counters race condition use-after-free (CVE-2020-14351)
kernel: ICMP rate limiting can be used for DNS poisoning attack (CVE-2020-25705)
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):
Final fixes + drop alpha_support flag requirement for Tigerlake (BZ#1882620)
OVS complains Invalid Argument on TCP packets going into conntrack (BZ#1892744)
BUG: using smpprocessorid() in preemptible [00000000] code: handler106/3082 (BZ#1893281)
Icelake performance - add intel_idle: Customize IceLake server support to AlmaLinux-8 (BZ#1897183)
[mlx5] IPV6 TOS rewrite flows are not getting offloaded in HW (BZ#1897688)
AlmaLinux 8.3 SAS - multipathd fails to re-establish paths during controller random reset (BZ#1900112)
AlmaLinux8.3 Beta - AlmaLinux8.3 hangs on dbginfo.sh execution, crash dump generated (mm-) (BZ#1903019)
Win10 guest automatic reboot after migration in Win10 and WSL2 on AMD hosts (BZ#1905084)
block, dm: fix IO splitting for stacked devices (BZ#1905136)
Failed to hotplug scsi-hd disks (BZ#1905214)
PCI quirk needed to prevent GPU hang (BZ#1906516)
AlmaLinux8.2 - various patches to stabilize the OPAL error log processing and the powernv dump processing (ESS) (BZ#1907301)
pmtu not working with tunnels as bridge ports and br_netfilter loaded (BZ#1907576)
[ThinkPad X13/T14/T14s AMD]: Kdump failed (BZ#1907775)
NFSv4 client improperly handles interrupted slots (BZ#1908312)
NFSv4.1 client ignores ERR_DELAY during LOCK recovery, could lead to data corruption (BZ#1908313)
[Regression] AlmaLinux8.2 - [kernel 148.el8] cpu (sys) time regression in SAP HANA 2.0 benchmark benchInsertSubSelectPerformance (BZ#1908519)
AlmaLinux8: kernel-rt: kernel BUG at kernel/sched/deadline.c:1462! (BZ#1908731)
SEV VM hang at efimokvarsysfs_init+0xa9/0x19d during boot (BZ#1909243)
C6gn support requires "Ensure dirty bit is preserved across pte_wrprotect" patch (BZ#1909577)
[Lenovo 8.3 & 8.4 Bug] [Regression] No response from keyboard and mouse when boot from tboot kernel (BZ#1911555)
Kernel crash with krb5p (BZ#1912478)
[AlmaLinux8] Need additional backports for FIPS 800-90A DRBG entropy seeding source (BZ#1912872)
[Hyper-V][AlmaLinux-8] Request to included a commit that adds a timeout to vmbuswaitfor_unload (BZ#1913528)
Host becomes unresponsive during stress-ng --cyclic test rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: (BZ#1913964)
AlmaLinux8.4: Backport upstream RCU patches up to v5.6 (BZ#1915638)
Missing mm backport to fix regression introduced by another mm backport (BZ#1915814)
[Hyper-V][AlmaLinux-8]video: hyperv_fb: Fix the cache type when mapping the VRAM Edit (BZ#1917711)
ionic 0000:39:00.0 ens2: IONICCMDQINIT (40) failed: IONICRC_ERROR (-5) (BZ#1918372)
[certification] mlx5core depends on tls triggering TAINTTECH_PREVIEW even if no ConnectX-6 card is present (BZ#1918743)
kvm-almalinux8.3 [AMD] - system crash observed while powering on virtual machine with attached VF interfaces. (BZ#1919885)
Enhancement(s):