Amazon Linux 2 version 2.0.20220207.0 release notes
These are the release notes for Amazon Linux 2 version 2.0.20220207.0.
Major updates
None.
Kernel updates
Rebase kernel to upstream stable 5.10.96.
CVEs fixed:
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CVE-2022-0330 [drm/i915: Flush TLBs before releasing backing store]
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CVE-2022-0492 [kernel: cgroups v1 release_agent feature may allow privilege escalation]
Amazon Features and Backports:
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lustre: update to AmazonFSxLustreClient v2.10.8-10
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drivers/base/memory: introduce memory_block_{online,offline}
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mm,memory_hotplug: relax fully spanned sections check
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mm,memory_hotplug: factor out adjusting present pages into adjust_present_page_count()
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mm,memory_hotplug: allocate memmap from the added memory range
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acpi,memhotplug: enable MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY when supported
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mm,memory_hotplug: add kernel boot option to enable memmap_on_memory
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x86/Kconfig: introduce ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE
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arm64/Kconfig: introduce ARCH_MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY_ENABLE
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drivers/base/memory: fix trying offlining memory blocks with memory holes on aarch64
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drivers/base/memory: use MHP_MEMMAP_ON_MEMORY from the probe interface
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mm: add offline page reporting interface
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virtio: add hack to allow pre-mapped scatterlists
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virtio-balloon: optionally report offlined memory ranges
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audit: improve audit queue handling when "audit=1" on cmdline
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cgroup-v1: Require capabilities to set release_agent
Rebase kernel to upstream stable 4.14.262
CVEs fixed:
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CVE-2021-4083 [fget: check that the fd still exists after getting a ref to it]
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CVE-2021-39685 [USB: gadget: detect too-big endpoint 0 requests]
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CVE-2021-28711 [xen/blkfront: harden blkfront against event channel storms]
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CVE-2021-28712 [xen/netfront: harden netfront against event channel storms]
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CVE-2021-28713 [xen/console: harden hvc_xen against event channel storms]
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CVE-2021-28714 [xen/netback: fix rx queue stall detection]
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CVE-2021-28715 [xen/netback: don't queue unlimited number of packages]
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CVE-2021-44733 [tee: handle lookup of shm with reference count 0]
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CVE-2021-4155 [xfs: map unwritten blocks in XFS_IOC_{ALLOC,FREE}SP just like fallocate]
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CVE-2022-0492 [kernel: cgroups v1 release_agent feature may allow privilege escalation]
Amazon Features and Backports:
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ena: Update to 2.6.0
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fuse: fix bad inode
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fuse: fix live lock in fuse_iget()
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lustre: update to AmazonFSxLustreClient v2.10.8-10
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cgroup-v1: Require capabilities to set release_agent
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audit: improve audit queue handling when "audit=1" on cmdline
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ENA: Update to v2.6.1
Other Fixes:
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tracing: Fix pid filtering when triggers are attached
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NFSv42: Don't fail clone() unless the OP_CLONE operation failed
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ARM: socfpga: Fix crash with CONFIG_FORTIRY_SOURCE
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ipv6: fix typos in ip6_finish_output()
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tracing: Check pid filtering when creating events
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PCI: aardvark: Train link immediately after enabling training
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PCI: aardvark: Update comment about disabling link training
Kernel |
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kernel-4.14.262-200.489.amzn2.aarch64 |
kernel-4.14.262-200.489.amzn2.x86_64 |
kernel-5.10.96-90.460.amzn2.aarch64 |
kernel-5.10.96-90.460.amzn2.x86_64 |
kernel-devel-4.14.262-200.489.amzn2.x86_64 |
kernel-headers-4.14.262-200.489.amzn2.x86_64 |
kernel-tools-4.14.262-200.489.amzn2.aarch64 |
kernel-tools-4.14.262-200.489.amzn2.x86_64 |
kernel-tools-5.10.96-90.460.amzn2.aarch64 |
kernel-tools-5.10.96-90.460.amzn2.x86_64 |