Security update for the Linux Kernel

The openSUSE Leap 42.2 kernel was updated to 4.4.49 to receive various security and bugfixes.

The following security bugs were fixed:

- CVE-2017-5986: A userlevel triggerable BUG_ON on sctp_wait_for_sndbuf was fixed. (bsc#1025235)
- CVE-2017-5970: The ipv4_pktinfo_prepare function in net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c in the Linux kernel allowed attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via (1) an application that made crafted system calls or possibly (2) IPv4 traffic with invalid IP options (bnc#1024938).
- CVE-2017-5897: A potential remote denial of service within the IPv6 GRE protocol was fixed. (bsc#1023762)
- CVE-2017-6074: The dccp_rcv_state_process function in net/dccp/input.c in the Linux kernel mishandled DCCP_PKT_REQUEST packet data structures in the LISTEN state, which allowed local users to cause a denial of service (invalid free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an application that makes an IPV6_RECVPKTINFO setsockopt system call. (bsc#1026024).

The following non-security bugs were fixed:

- btrfs: fix btrfs_compat_ioctl failures on non-compat ioctls (bsc#1018100).
- iwlwifi: Expose the default fallback ucode API to module info (boo#1021082, boo#1023884).
- kabi: protect struct tcp_fastopen_cookie (kabi).
- md: ensure md devices are freed before module is unloaded (bsc#1022304).
- md: Fix a regression reported by bsc#1020048 in patches.fixes/0003-md-lockless-I-O-submission-for-RAID1.patch (bsc#982783,bsc#998106,bsc#1020048).
- net: ethtool: Initialize buffer when querying device channel settings (bsc#969479 FATE#320634).
- net: implement netif_cond_dbg macro (bsc#1019168).
- sfc: reduce severity of PIO buffer alloc failures (bsc#1019168).
- sfc: refactor debug-or-warnings printks (bsc#1019168).
- xfs_dmapi: fix the debug compilation of xfs_dmapi (bsc#989056).
- xfs: do not allow di_size with high bit set (bsc#1024234).
- xfs: exclude never-released buffers from buftarg I/O accounting (bsc#1024508).
- xfs: fix broken multi-fsb buffer logging (bsc#1024081).
- xfs: fix buffer overflow dm_get_dirattrs/dm_get_dirattrs2 (bsc#989056).
- xfs: fix up xfs_swap_extent_forks inline extent handling (bsc#1023888).
- xfs: track and serialize in-flight async buffers against unmount (bsc#1024508).
- xfs: track and serialize in-flight async buffers against unmount - kABI (bsc#1024508).

Fixed bugs
bnc#1018100
btrfs: Compat FS_IOC_GETFLAGS/FS_IOC_SETFLAGS ioctls() does not work
bnc#1019168
[SLES-12-SP2] sfc driver reports few errors during boot.
bnc#1020048
[SLES12 SP2] "Data miscompare on a read" is observed during the rebuilding of degraded MDRAID VDs
bnc#1021082
NET installer not picking up WiFi connection
bnc#1022304
System panic in get_disk() after removing associated kernel modules
bnc#1023762
VUL-0: CVE-2017-5897: kernel-source: ip6_gre:invalid reads in ip6gre_err()
bnc#1023884
Intel 3168 Wifi card doesn't work on boot, but does after module reload
bnc#1023888
xfstests xfs/118 triggers null pointer deref in xfs_trans_log_inode
bnc#1024081
xfstests xfs/306 causes null pointer dereference
bnc#1024234
xfstests xfs/133 and xfs/134 trigger hangup on unmount
bnc#1024508
xfstests xfs/311 causes null pointer dereference
bnc#1024938
VUL-0: CVE-2017-5970: kernel-source: ipv4: keep skb->dst around in presence of IP options
bnc#1025235
VUL-1: CVE-2017-5986: kernel-source: Reachable BUG_ON from userspace in sctp_wait_for_sndbuf()
bnc#969479
FATE 320634 Intel fm10k update for SLE12SP2
bnc#982783
SLES 11 SP4 - Severe performance degradation with RAID1 configuration (using NVMe on POWER)
bnc#989056
xfs_dmapi: dm_filldir(2) counts directory entry name twice
bnc#998106
[Intel SLES 12 SP2 BUG] Patrol read gets stuck for RAID1 array
bnc#1012382
Continuous stable update tracker for 4.4
bnc#1022181
kernel OOPS @ 'pcie_aspm_init_link_state' after upgrade from @Kernel:Stable 4.9.5-3.1.g9bb1a8a-default -> 4.9.6-1.1.gd1207ac-default
bnc#1026024
VUL-0: CVE-2017-6074: kernel-source: local privilege escalation due to double free in dccp code
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