Issued:

2011-12-06

Updated:

2011-12-06

RHEA-2011:1747 - kabi-whitelists enhancement update

Synopsis

kabi-whitelists enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory (none)

Topic

An updated kabi-whitelists package that adds various enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The kabi-whitelists package contains reference files documenting interfaces provided by the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kernel that are considered to be stable by Red Hat kernel engineering, and safe for longer term use by third party loadable device drivers, as well as for other purposes.

This update adds the following enhancements:

• The "pci_reset_function" symbol has been added to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 kernel application binary interface (ABI) whitelists. (BZ#680469)

• The "aio_complete" and "aio_put_req" symbols have been added to the kernel ABI whitelists. (BZ#690479)

• The "__blk_end_request", "bdget_disk", "blk_limits_io_min", "blk_limits_io_opt", "blk_plug_device", "blk_queue_bounce", "blk_queue_max_discard_sectors", "blk_remove_plug", "blk_requeue_request", "jiffies_to_usecs", "prepare_to_wait_exclusive", "ipv6_ext_hdr", "lro_receive_frags", and "lro_vlan_hwaccel_receive_frags" symbols have been added to the kernel ABI whitelists. (BZ#700406)

• The "ipv6_ext_hdr", "lro_receive_frags", and "lro_vlan_hwaccel_receive_frags" symbols have been added to the kernel ABI whitelists. (BZ#700432)

• The "ipv6_ext_hdr", "lro_receive_frags", "lro_vlan_hwaccel_receive_frags", "netif_set_real_num_tx_queues", and "pci_find_ext_capability" symbols have been added to the kernel ABI whitelists. The only exception is "pci_find_ext_capability", which is not available for IBM System z. (BZ#702675)

• The "compat_alloc_user_space" symbol has been added to the kernel ABI whitelists. (BZ#703125)

• The "paca" symbol has been added to the kernel ABI whitelists for the 64-bit PowerPC architecture. (BZ#730410)

• The "dm_put_device", "enl_register_ops", "m_device_name", "m_unregister_target", "m_register_target", "m_table_get_mode", "m_table_get_md", "m_get_device", and "enl_register_family" symbols have been added to the kernel ABI whitelists. (BZ#748520)

Note: It is not necessary to install the kabi-whitelists package in order to use Driver Updates. The kabi-whitelists package only provides reference files for use by those creating Driver Update packages, or for those who wish to enable support for verification of kernel ABI compatibility by installing the appropriate Yum plug-in.

All users of kabi-whitelists are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which adds these enhancements.

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

• kabi-whitelists-20111027-1.el6.src.rpm
• kabi-whitelists-20111027-1.el6.noarch.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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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/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.