Recommended update for the Linux Kernel

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2018:1483-1
Rating: important
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service 11 SP3
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS 11-SP3

An update that has six fixes can now be installed.

Description:

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 kernel was updated to receive various bugfixes.

The following non-security bugs were fixed:

  • Avoid quadratic search when freeing delegations (bsc#1084760).
  • kABI: work around BPF SSBD removal (bsc#1087082).
  • Drop cBPF SSBD.
  • Fix for bsc#1092497
  • ipc/msg: Fix faulty parsing of msgctl args (bsc#1093600,bsc#1072689).
  • x86/kaiser: export symbol kaiser_set_shadow_pgd() (bsc#1092813)

Special Instructions and Notes:

  • Please reboot the system after installing this update.

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service 11 SP3
    zypper in -t patch sleposp3-kernel-13636=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS 11-SP3
    zypper in -t patch slessp3-kernel-13636=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service 11 SP3 (nosrc i586)
    • kernel-ec2-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
    • kernel-trace-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
    • kernel-xen-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
    • kernel-pae-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
    • kernel-default-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service 11 SP3 (i586)
    • kernel-syms-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
    • kernel-default-devel-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
    • kernel-source-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
    • kernel-ec2-devel-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
    • kernel-xen-base-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
    • kernel-default-base-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
    • kernel-trace-devel-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
    • kernel-pae-devel-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
    • kernel-xen-devel-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
    • kernel-pae-base-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
    • kernel-ec2-base-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
    • kernel-trace-base-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS 11-SP3 (nosrc s390x x86_64 i586)
    • kernel-default-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
    • kernel-trace-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS 11-SP3 (s390x x86_64 i586)
    • kernel-syms-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
    • kernel-default-devel-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
    • kernel-source-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
    • kernel-default-base-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
    • kernel-trace-devel-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
    • kernel-trace-base-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS 11-SP3 (nosrc x86_64 i586)
    • kernel-xen-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
    • kernel-ec2-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS 11-SP3 (x86_64 i586)
    • kernel-xen-devel-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
    • kernel-xen-base-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
    • kernel-ec2-devel-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
    • kernel-ec2-base-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS 11-SP3 (nosrc i586)
    • kernel-pae-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS 11-SP3 (i586)
    • kernel-pae-devel-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
    • kernel-pae-base-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS 11-SP3 (s390x)
    • kernel-default-man-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS 11-SP3 (nosrc x86_64)
    • kernel-bigsmp-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS 11-SP3 (x86_64)
    • kernel-bigsmp-base-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1
    • kernel-bigsmp-devel-3.0.101-0.47.106.32.1

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