RHSA-2021:2714: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fix(es):

• kernel: size_t-to-int conversion vulnerability in the filesystem layer (CVE-2021-33909)
• kernel: race condition for removal of the HCI controller (CVE-2021-32399) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Bug Fix(es):
• pinctrl_emmitsburg: improper configuration (BZ#1963984)
• [Ampere] locking/qrwlock: Fix ordering in queued_write_lock_slowpath (BZ#1964419)
• RHEL8.4 - [P10] [NPIV Multi queue Test kernel- 4.18.0-283.el8.ibmvfc_11022021.ppc64le] DLPAR operation fails for ibmvfc on Denali (ibmvfc/dlpar/RHEL8.4) (BZ#1964697)
• Every server is displaying the same power levels for all of our i40e 25G interfaces. 10G interfaces seem to be correct. Ethtool version is 5.0 (BZ#1967099)
• backport fixes for Connection Tracking offload (BZ#1968679)
• fm10k: removal of MODULE_VERSION deemed improper for y-stream release (BZ#1969910)
• ixgbevf: removal of MODULE_VERSION deemed improper for y-stream release (BZ#1969911)
• ena: removal of MODULE_VERSION deemed improper for y-stream release (BZ#1969913)
• b44, bnx2, bnx2x, bnxt, tg3: removal of MODULE_VERSION deemed improper for y-stream release (BZ#1969914)
• e1000, e1000e: removal of MODULE_VERSION deemed improper for y-stream release (BZ#1969915)
• ice: removal of MODULE_VERSION deemed improper for y-stream release (BZ#1969917)
• igb: removal of MODULE_VERSION deemed improper for y-stream release (BZ#1969919)
• igbvf: removal of MODULE_VERSION deemed improper for y-stream release (BZ#1969920)
• igc: removal of MODULE_VERSION deemed improper for y-stream release (BZ#1969921)
• ixgbe: removal of MODULE_VERSION deemed improper for y-stream release (BZ#1969922)
• i40e: removal of MODULE_VERSION deemed improper for y-stream release (BZ#1969923)
• iavf: removal of MODULE_VERSION deemed improper for y-stream release (BZ#1969925)
• Backport netlink extack tracepoint (BZ#1972938)
• [RHEL8.4] kernel panic when create NPIV port on qedf driver (BZ#1974968) Related CVEs:
• CVE-2021-32399: kernel: race condition for removal of the HCI controller
• CVE-2021-33909: kernel: size_t-to-int conversion vulnerability in the filesystem layer