[Announce] Kernel RHEL6 testing 042stab087.3

Kir Kolyshkin kir at openvz.org
Wed Mar 26 14:42:08 PDT 2014


OpenVZ project released an updated RHEL6 based testing kernel. Read 
below for more information.


Changes
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(from 042stab085.20):
* Rebase to RHEL6 kernel 2.6.32-431.5.1.el6 (security and bug fixes, 
RHSA-2014-0159)
* autoload netfilter modules (enabled by default) (PSBM-23615)
* nested net namespaces support (PSBM-24124)
* pty: fix NULL ptr dereference on ptmx_open error path (PCLIN-32013)
* ub: inc proper failcnt in __ub_kmem_charge (PSBM-25010)
* cpt: don't restore ipv6 addresses if ipv6 is disabled (PSBM-22795)
* dcache: prune_dcache_popup: use RR as a last resort (PSBM-23814)
* ub: make ub_dcache_thres_ratio global (PSBM-23815)
* fs: do not set S_IFREG on the anon_inode (PSBM-24959)
* fs: allow to remove swapfile hardlinks (PSBM-25310)
* net: bc - do not account sockets created by the kernel itself
* rst: do not release accounted sockets on in case of open error 
(PSBM-25115)
* cpt: define socket object cpt_vfsmount_ref field (PSBM-25115)
* cpt: handle socket dump errors (PSBM-25115)
* cpt: cleanup frozen processes thaw and frozen print (PSBM-25069)
* rst: fix tunnel double add to list (PSBM-24331)
* fs: pick_peer_page: clear peer->i_peer_file on final fput (PSBM-24501)
* rst: check NFSv4 is enabled in case of NFSv4 mount restoring (PSBM-22292)
* rst: fix double free of a delayed context in case of kthread creation 
error
* net: Save netdev statistics between suspend and resume (PSBM-22876)
* sched: spread cputime inside ct evenly across all vcpus (PSBM-25087)
* ub: gang_mod_user_page: inc physpages failcnt on failure (PSBM-25461)
* ub: do not inc dcache failcnt if failed to charge kmem (PSBM-25461)
* ms ext4: fix online resize with a non-standard blocks per group 
setting (PSBM-24924)
* ms ext4: fix online resize with very large inode tables (PSBM-24924, 
CVE-2014-2523)
* cpt: do not dump content of anon inode (PSBM-25541)
* nf, autoload: Add support for ignoring blacklisted modules (PSBM-25481)
* ploop: put top-delta back if merge failed (PSBM-25252)
* ploop: ensure non-empty delta list on running ploop (PSBM-25102)


Download
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http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel6-testing/042stab087.3


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Regards,
   OpenVZ team



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