The following issues have been fixed in this update.
bnx2i Driver
Fixed the issue with the bnx2i driver that caused a kernel panic when the iscsiadm command is used. (Bug 19726959)
DTrace
Dtrace modules can now be loaded automatically. (Bug ID 19821254)
If initial process grabs or creations fail, they no longer cause intermittent core dumps. (Bug ID 19679998)
It was possible for an executed process to terminate abnormally if DTrace user-space tracing was already active.
DTrace could lose track of the state of a process, or even become deadlocked, if the process called
exec()
while DTrace was inserting a breakpoint.
ext3
The problem that caused file system corruption in a virtual machine when the virtual disks are configured as sparse files in an ext3 repository has been fixed. (Bug ID 19220057)
Hyper-V
Reloading Hyper-V kernel modules using modprobe no longer results in a kernel panic.
The Kdump kernel crash feature now works as expected in Oracle Linux virtual machines on Windows Server 2012 R2 hosts. (Bug 19727047)
The hot-adding memory feature now works with Oracle Linux virtual machines. (Bug 19441989)
Microcode
Systems with Haswell CPUs no longer experience lengthy boot delays due to microcode loading issues.
nvme Driver
Fixed the bug with the
nvme
driver that caused hot-unplugged and re-plugged devices to show up with zero capacity and an erroneousdetected capacity change
message in/var/log/messages
. (Bug 19566288)
OCFS2
OCFS2 no longer hangs due to a wrong locking order. (Bug ID 19547845, 19249791)
Enabling the global heartbeat no longer causes a node to reboot when the cluster configuration (
cluster.conf
) is inconsistent across the stack. (Bug 19549715)
qla2xxx Driver
Fixed incorrectly returned
PCI EEH busy
warning message. (Bug ID 19916135)
Virtualization
Increasing the number of virtual CPUs on a running PVM guest (xm vcpu-set) no longer causes a soft lockup. (Bug 19261720)
Shutting down or rebooting a PVM guest no longer causes a kernel panic. (Bug 19803968)
XFS
Turning project quotas off with xfs_quota no longer fails with an
XFS_QUOTARM: Invalid argument
error. (Bug ID 19815141)