Issued:

2011-05-19

Updated:

2011-05-19

RHBA-2011:0804 - irqbalance bug fix update

Synopsis

irqbalance bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated irqbalance package that fixes one bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

irqbalance is a daemon that evenly distributes IRQ load across multiple CPUs for enhanced performance.

This update fixes the following bug:

• irqbalance was not previously built with PIE and RELRO enabled, as they were in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. In this update, irqbalance is built as a PIE executable and is using RELRO protection. (BZ#630023)

Users of irqbalance are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes this bug.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• irqbalance-0.55-29.el6.x86_64.rpm
• irqbalance-debuginfo-0.55-29.el6.i686.rpm
• irqbalance-0.55-29.el6.i686.rpm
• irqbalance-debuginfo-0.55-29.el6.x86_64.rpm
• irqbalance-debuginfo-0.55-29.el6.ppc64.rpm
• irqbalance-0.55-29.el6.ppc64.rpm
• irqbalance-0.55-29.el6.src.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
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