Linux 2.6.24.5
From: Chris Wright
Date: Sat Apr 19 2008 - 00:51:33 EST
We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.24.5 kernel.
It fixes a large number of different bugs and all users of the 2.6.24 series
are encouraged to upgrade.
I'll also be replying to this message with a copy of the patch between
2.6.24.4 and 2.6.24.5
The updated 2.6.24.y git tree can be found at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.24.y.git
and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.24.y.git;a=summary
thanks,
-chris
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Makefile | 4 -
arch/parisc/kernel/firmware.c | 27 +++++++----
arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_cons.c | 19 +++++++-
arch/parisc/kernel/signal.c | 3 -
arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c | 4 +
arch/sparc64/kernel/signal.c | 2
arch/sparc64/mm/tlb.c | 3 -
arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c | 1
arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 42 ++++++++++--------
arch/x86/xen/xen-asm.S | 9 +++
crypto/xcbc.c | 17 +++----
drivers/acpi/bus.c | 7 +--
drivers/acpi/processor_core.c | 2
drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 38 ++++++++++------
drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c | 2
drivers/hwmon/w83781d.c | 21 ++++++---
drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c | 2
drivers/md/md.c | 12 -----
drivers/md/raid5.c | 51 ++++++++++++----------
drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/ttusb2.c | 1
drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10086.c | 28 +++++++++---
drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10086.h | 3 +
drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/budget.c | 1
drivers/media/video/ivtv/ivtv-driver.c | 3 +
drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-dvb.c | 1
drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0001.c | 10 ++--
drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c | 1
drivers/net/macb.c | 2
drivers/net/plip.c | 7 +--
drivers/net/pppol2tp.c | 69 ++++++++++++++++--------------
drivers/net/sis190.c | 15 ++++--
drivers/net/sungem.c | 2
drivers/pci/quirks.c | 11 ++--
drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/rsparser.c | 8 +--
drivers/uio/uio.c | 2
drivers/usb/core/message.c | 5 +-
drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 3 +
drivers/usb/serial/keyspan.h | 4 +
drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.c | 4 -
drivers/usb/serial/visor.c | 2
drivers/usb/storage/transport.c | 3 -
drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h | 11 ++++
drivers/video/fbmem.c | 1
fs/buffer.c | 13 ++---
fs/dcache.c | 3 -
fs/hfsplus/dir.c | 23 ++++++----
fs/inotify.c | 30 ++++++-------
fs/locks.c | 48 ++++++++++++--------
fs/signalfd.c | 7 ++-
include/asm-parisc/futex.h | 10 +++-
include/asm-parisc/pdc.h | 3 -
include/asm-sparc64/backoff.h | 3 -
include/linux/ethtool.h | 1
include/linux/percpu.h | 2
include/linux/sched.h | 6 ++
include/linux/security.h | 3 -
include/linux/time.h | 4 +
include/linux/usb/quirks.h | 3 +
include/linux/usb_usual.h | 4 +
kernel/sched.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++
kernel/timer.c | 10 +++-
mm/allocpercpu.c | 15 ++++++
mm/slab.c | 4 -
net/8021q/vlan.c | 2
net/ax25/ax25_out.c | 13 ++++-
net/bluetooth/hci_core.c | 4 -
net/core/dev.c | 4 -
net/core/netpoll.c | 6 +-
net/ipv4/tcp.c | 4 -
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 2
net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_conntrack_reasm.c | 2
net/llc/af_llc.c | 3 +
net/sched/sch_generic.c | 18 ++++++-
net/sched/sch_htb.c | 13 +++--
net/sctp/bind_addr.c | 4 +
net/sctp/ipv6.c | 4 +
net/sctp/protocol.c | 4 +
scripts/Makefile.modpost | 6 ++
scripts/mod/file2alias.c | 4 +
scripts/mod/modpost.c | 5 +-
scripts/mod/modpost.h | 1
security/capability.c | 1
security/commoncap.c | 39 ----------------
83 files changed, 533 insertions(+), 304 deletions(-)
Summary of changes from v2.6.24.4 to v2.6.24.5
==============================================
Alan Stern (1):
USB: new quirk flag to avoid Set-Interface
Alexey Dobriyan (1):
fbdev: fix /proc/fb oops after module removal
Alexey Korolev (1):
mtd: fix broken state in CFI driver caused by FL_SHUTDOWN
Alok Kataria (1):
acpi: fix "buggy BIOS check" when CPUs are hot removed
Atsushi Nemoto (1):
macb: Call phy_disconnect on removing
Brad Sawatzky (1):
USB: serial: fix regression in Visor/Palm OS module for kernels >= 2.6.24
Carol Hebert (1):
ipmi: change device node ordering to reflect probe order
Chidambar 'ilLogict' Zinnoury (1):
SCTP: Fix local_addr deletions during list traversals.
Chris Wright (1):
Linux 2.6.24.5
Chuck Ebbert (1):
acpi: bus: check once more for an empty list after locking it
Clark Rawlins (1):
USB: Allow initialization of broken keyspan serial adapters.
Constantin Baranov (1):
USB: add support for Motorola ROKR Z6 cellphone in mass storage mode
Dan Williams (1):
md: close a livelock window in handle_parity_checks5
Daniel Yeisley (1):
slab: fix cache_cache bootstrap in kmem_cache_init()
Dave Young (1):
bluetooth: hci_core: defer hci_unregister_sysfs()
David S. Miller (6):
SUNGEM: Fix NAPI assertion failure.
INET: inet_frag_evictor() must run with BH disabled
SPARC64: Fix atomic backoff limit.
SPARC64: Fix __get_cpu_var in preemption-enabled area.
SPARC64: flush_ptrace_access() needs preemption disable.
SPARC64: Fix FPU saving in 64-bit signal handling.
Davide Libenzi (1):
signalfd: fix for incorrect SI_QUEUE user data reporting
Dmitri Monakhov (1):
vfs: fix data leak in nobh_write_end()
Eric Dumazet (2):
PERCPU : __percpu_alloc_mask() can dynamically size percpu_data storage
alloc_percpu() fails to allocate percpu data
Francois Romieu (1):
sis190: read the mac address from the eeprom first
Guido Guenther (1):
POWERPC: Fix build of modular drivers/macintosh/apm_emu.c
Hartmut Hackmann (1):
DVB: tda10086: make the 22kHz tone for DISEQC a config option
Herbert Xu (2):
NET: Add preemption point in qdisc_run
TCP: Let skbs grow over a page on fast peers
Ian Armstrong (1):
V4L: ivtv: Add missing sg_init_table()
Ingo van Lil (1):
mtd: memory corruption in block2mtd.c
J. Bruce Fields (1):
locks: fix possible infinite loop in fcntl(F_SETLKW) over nfs
James Chapman (2):
PPPOL2TP: Make locking calls softirq-safe
PPPOL2TP: Fix SMP issues in skb reorder queue handling
Jarek Poplawski (2):
AX25 ax25_out: check skb for NULL in ax25_kick()
netpoll: zap_completion_queue: adjust skb->users counter
Jean Delvare (2):
pci: revert SMBus unhide on HP Compaq nx6110
hwmon: (w83781d) Fix I/O resource conflict with PNP
Jean-Samuel Chenard (1):
UIO: add pgprot_noncached() to UIO mmap code
Jeremy Fitzhardinge (3):
xen: fix RMW when unmasking events
xen: mask out SEP from CPUID
xen: fix UP setup of shared_info
Joy Latten (1):
CRYPTO xcbc: Fix crash when ipsec uses xcbc-mac with big data chunk
Ken'ichi Ohmichi (1):
vmcoreinfo: add the symbol "phys_base"
Kirill A. Shutemov (1):
NET: include <linux/types.h> into linux/ethtool.h for __u* typedef
Kyle McMartin (3):
PARISC futex: special case cmpxchg NULL in kernel space
PARISC pdc_console: fix bizarre panic on boot
PARISC fix signal trampoline cache flushing
Len Brown (1):
pnpacpi: reduce printk severity for "pnpacpi: exceeded the max number of ..."
Martin Devera (1):
sch_htb: fix "too many events" situation
Mikulas Patocka (1):
plip: replace spin_lock_irq with spin_lock_irqsave in irq context
NeilBrown (1):
md: remove the 'super' sysfs attribute from devices in an 'md' array
Nick Piggin (2):
inotify: fix race
inotify: remove debug code
Patrick McHardy (4):
LLC: Restrict LLC sockets to root
NET: Fix multicast device ioctl checks
TCP: Fix shrinking windows with window scaling
VLAN: Don't copy ALLMULTI/PROMISC flags from underlying device
Robert Spanton (1):
USB: serial: ti_usb_3410_5052: Correct TUSB3410 endpoint requirements.
Roman Zippel (1):
HFS+: fix unlink of links
Sam Ravnborg (1):
kbuild: soften modpost checks when doing cross builds
Segher Boessenkool (1):
time: prevent the loop in timespec_add_ns() from being optimised away
Serge Hallyn (1):
file capabilities: remove cap_task_kill()
Tejun Heo (1):
libata: assume no device is attached if both IDENTIFYs are aborted
Thomas Gleixner (1):
NOHZ: reevaluate idle sleep length after add_timer_on()
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