Issued:

2012-06-20

Updated:

2012-06-20

RHEA-2012:0918 - 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 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:

• Multiple symbols have been added to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 kernel application binary interface (ABI) whitelists. (BZ#722619)

• Multiple symbols for Hitachi loadable device drivers have been added to the kernel ABI whitelists. (BZ#737276)

• This update modifies the structure of the kabi-whitelists package: whitelists are now ordered according to various Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases, and a symbolic link that points to the latest release has been added. (BZ#753771)

• The "__dec_zone_page_state" and "dec_zone_page_state" symbols have been added to the kernel ABI whitelists. (BZ#803885)

• The "blk_queue_rq_timed_out", "fc_attach_transport", "fc_release_transport", "fc_remote_port_add", "fc_remote_port_delete", "fc_remote_port_rolechg", "fc_remove_host", and "touch_nmi_watchdog" symbols have been added to the kernel ABI whitelists. (BZ#810456)

• Multiple symbols for Oracle Cloud File System have been added to the kernel ABI whitelists. (BZ#812463)

• The "get_fs_type" and "vscnprintf" have been added to the kernel ABI whitelists. (BZ#816533)

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 https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• kabi-whitelists-20120516-1.el6.noarch.rpm
• kabi-whitelists-20120516-1.el6.src.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 753771
• This content is not included.BZ - 812463

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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