final: - 2.4.30-rc4 was released as 2.4.30 with no changes.
Summary of changes from v2.4.30-rc3 to v2.4.30-rc4 ============================================ Herbert Xu: o [NETLINK] Fix bogus mc_list deletion Marcelo Tosatti: o Cset exclude: [EMAIL PROTECTED]|ChangeSet|20050226095914|25750 o Change VERSION to 2.4.30-rc4 Willy Tarreau: o Keith Owens: modutils >= 2.4.14 is required for MODVERSIONS+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() combination Summary of changes from v2.4.30-rc2 to v2.4.30-rc3 ============================================ Marcelo Tosatti: o Andreas Arens: Fix deadly mismerge of binfmt_elf DoS fix o Change VERSION to 2.4.30-rc3 Summary of changes from v2.4.30-rc1 to v2.4.30-rc2 ============================================ <davem:sunset.davemloft.net>: o [TG3]: Add missing CHIPREV_5750_{A,B}X defines o [TG3]: Missing counter bump in tigon3_4gb_hwbug_workaround() o [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate <magnus.damm:gmail.com>: o eepro100: fix module parameter description typo <mlafon:arkoon.net>: o CAN-2005-0400: ext2 mkdir() directory entry random kernel memory leak <relf:os2.ru>: o fs/hpfs/*: fix HPFS support under 64-bit kernel <sj-netfilter:cookinglinux.org>: o [NETFILTER]: Fix another DECLARE_MUTEX in header file Bjorn Helgaas: o ia64: force all kernel sections into one and the same segment o ia64: round iommu allocations to power-of-two sizes o ia64: fix perfmon typo in /proc/pal/CPU*/processor_info w.r.t. BERR o ia64: add missing syscall-slot o ia64: Update defconfigs Chris Wright: o isofs: Some more defensive checks to keep corrupt isofs images from corrupting memory/oopsing Dave Kleikamp: o JFS: remove aops from directory inodes David Mosberger: o Fix pte_modify() bug which allowed mprotect() to change too many bits o ia64: Fix _PAGE_CHG_MASK so PROT_NONE works again. Caught by Linus Greg Banks: o link_path_walk refcount problem allows umount of active filesystem Herbert Xu: o [CRYPTO]: Mark myself as co-maintainer o [NETLINK]: Fix multicast bind/autobind race o CAN-2005-0794: Potential DOS in load_elf_library Keith Owens: o [IA64] Sanity check unw_unwind_to_user o [IA64] Tighten up unw_unwind_to_user check Linus Torvalds: o isofs: Handle corupted rock-ridge info slightly better o isofs: more "corrupted iso image" error cases Marcel Holtmann: o CAN-2005-0750: Fix af_bluetooth range checking bug, discovered by Ilja van Sprundel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Marcelo Tosatti: o Change VERSION to 2.4.30-rc2 Michael Chan: o [TG3]: Add 5705_plus flag o [TG3]: Flush status block in tg3_interrupt() o [TG3]: Add unstable PLL workaround for 5750 o [TG3]: Fix jumbo frames phy settings o [TG3]: Fix ethtool set functions o [TG3]: Add Broadcom copyright Neil Brown: o nlm: fix f_count leak o [PATCH md: allow degraded raid1 array to resync after an unclean shutdown Pablo Neira: o [NETFILTER]: Fix DECLARE_MUTEX in header file Patrick McHardy: o [NETFILTER]: fix return values of ipt_recent checkentry o [NETFILTER]: Fix ip_ct_selective_cleanup(), and rename ip_ct_iterate_cleanup() o [NETFILTER]: Fix cleanup in ipt_recent o [NETFILTER]: Fix ip6tables ESP matching with "-p all" o [NETFILTER]: Fix refreshing of overlapping expectations o [NETFILTER]: Fix IP/TCP option logging o [TUN]: Fix check for underflow Pete Zaitcev: o USB: fix oops in serial_write o USB: Fix baud selection in mct_u232 Simon Horman: o [IPVS]: Fix comment typos o Backport v2.6 ATM copy-to-user signedness fix o earlyquirk.o is needed for CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT Stephen Hemminger: o [TCP]: BIC not binary searching correctly Wensong Zhang: o [IPVS]: Update mark->cw in the WRR scheduler while service is updated Yanmin Zhang: o [IA64] clean up ptrace corner cases Summary of changes from v2.4.30-pre3 to v2.4.30-rc1 ============================================ <crn:netunix.com>: o [SPARC32]: Fix build dependencies for vmlinux.o o [SPARC32]: Fix sun4d sbus and current handling o [SPARC32]: sun4d needs ZS_WSYNC() zilog reg flushing too <davem:northbeach.davemloft.net.davemloft.net>: o [SPARC64]: Fix semtimedop compat ipc code <jacques_basson:myrealbox.com>: o Fix softdog no reboot on unexpected close Alan Hourihane: o agpgart Intel i915GM ID's and tweaks Andrea Arcangeli: o Write throttling should not take free highmem into account Chris Wedgwood: o early boot code references check_acpi_pci() Linus Torvalds: o Workaround possible pty line discipline race Marcelo Tosatti: o Andrea Arcangeli: get_user_pages() shall not grab PG_reserved pages o Paul Mackerras: Remote Linux DoS on ppp servers (CAN-2005-0384) o Change VERSION to 2.4.30-rc1 Roland McGrath: o i386/x86_64 fpu: fix x87 tag word simulation using fxsave Solar Designer: o Enable gcc warnings for vsprintf/vsnprintf with "format" attribute Stephen Hemminger: o TCP BIC not binary searching correctly Willy Tarreau: o acpi.h needs <linux/init.h> Summary of changes from v2.4.30-pre2 to v2.4.30-pre3 ============================================ <davem:northbeach.davemloft.net.davemloft.net>: o [SPARC64]: Tomatillo PCI controller bug fixes o [TIGON3]: Do not touch NIC_SRAM_FIRMWARE_MBOX when TG3_FLG2_SUN_570X o [TIGON3]: Update driver version and reldate <hifumi.hisashi:lab.ntt.co.jp>: o BUG on error handlings in Ext3 under I/O <krzysztof.h1:wp.pl>: o [SPARC]: DBRI fixes and improvements <liml:rtr.ca>: o sata_qstor: eh_timeout fix <mallikarjuna.chilakala:intel.com>: o e1000: 1 Robert Olsson's fix and o e1000: 2 use netif_poll_{enable|disable} o e1000: Avoid race between e1000_watchdog o e1000: Delay clean-up of last Tx buffer o e1000: Fix WOL settings in 82544 based o e1000: Patch from Peter Kjellstroem -- o e1000: Checks for desc ring/rx data o e1000: Report failure code when loopback o e1000: Fixes related to Cable length o e1000: Driver version white space, <mat.loikkanen:synopsys.com>: o [libata] add ->bmdma_{stop,status} hooks <phil:fifi.org>: o sk98lin workaround Asus K8V SE Deluxe buggy firmware <slee:netengine1.com>: o Fix units/partition count in sd.c Adrian Bunk: o drivers/scsi/sata_*: make code static David S. Miller: o [SPARC64]: Fix 32bit compat layer bugs in sys_ipc() and sys_rt_sigtimedwait() o [AF_UNIX]: Fix SIOCINQ for STREAM o [SPARC64]: Accept 'm5823' clock chip as seen on SB1500 Jeff Garzik: o [libata sata_via] minor cleanups o [libata sata_via] add support for VT6421 SATA o [libata] resync with 2.6 msleep() updates o [libata] trivial: whitespace sync with 2.6 o [libata] do not call pci_disable_device() for certain errors o [libata] Add missing hooks, to avoid oops in advanced SATA drivers o [libata] Use DMA_{32,64}BIT_MASK in ahci, sata_vsc drivers o [libata ahci] Print out port id on error messages o [libata] remove_one helper cleanup John W. Linville: o libata: fix command queue leak when xlat_func fails o tulip: make tulip_stop_rxtx() wait for DMA to fully stop Marcelo Tosatti: o Cset exclude: [EMAIL PROTECTED]|ChangeSet|20041125155150|65356 o Allow lseek on SCSI tapes o Allow lseek on osst to keep tar --verify happy o Change VERSION to 2.4.30-pre3 o Early ACPI PCI quirk depends on CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC Mark Lord: o sata_qstor: new basic driver for Pacific Digital o [libata qstor] minor update per LKML comments Matt Domsch: o aic7xxx: don't reset chip on pause Mikael Pettersson: o fix undefined behaviour in cistpl.c Paul Fulghum: o fix synclinkmp register access typo Solar Designer: o Fix for swapoff after re-creating device files o Fix proc_tty.c comment typos Zwane Mwaikambo: o Fix timer override on nforce Summary of changes from v2.4.30-pre1 to v2.4.30-pre2 ============================================ <krzysztof.h1:wp.pl>: o [SPARC32]: Need to clear PSR_EF in psr of childregs on fork() on SMP <marcelo:dmt.cnet>: o Changed VERSION to v2.4.30-pre2 <temnota+kernel:kmv.ru>: o megaraid2 reorder inline functions <vvs:sw.ru>: o megaraid2 update 2.10.8.2 Charles-Edouard Ruault: o Reserve only needed regions for PC timers on i386 and x86_64 Dave Kleikamp: o JFS: remove invalid NULL assignments to i_sb o JFS: fix livelock waiting for stale metapage o JFS: mount option iocharset=none o JFS: change project url to http://jfs.sourceforge.net/ David S. Miller: o [SPARC]: Fix bogus trailing semicolon in smb_*() macros o [SPARC]: nop() macro has bogus trailing semicolon o [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate o [SPARC64]: Fix trailing semicolon in membar macros o [COMPAT]: TUNSETIFF needs to copy back data after ioctl o [TG3]: Always check tg3_readphy() return value o [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate o [BRLOCKS]: Delete atomic version, is buggy and deadlock prone Domen Puncer: o JFS: delete unused file Eugene Surovegin: o 2.4: fix bogus 440GX rev.C PVR Hideaki Yoshifuji: o [NET]: Fix kernel oops if base_reachable_time is set to 0 Jean Tourrilhes: o [NET]: Backport SIOCSIFNAME wildcarding support from 2.6.x Kenneth Sumrall: o Kenneth Sumrall: In lp_write(), copy_from_user() is called to copy data into a statically allocated kernel buffer before down_interruptible() Michael Chan: o [TG3]: capacitive coupling detection fix Patrick McHardy: o [PKT_SCHED]: Fix u32 double listing o [NETLINK]: Unhash sockets correctly Pete Zaitcev: o USB: ftdi_sio o USB: hid for ia64 o USB: fix modem_run o USB: mct_u232 Stephen Hemminger: o [TCP]: Fix BIC max_cwnd calculation error Stephen Rothwell: o PPC64: 32 bit sys_recvmsg corruption o Fixup 32 bit sys_recvmsg corruption patch Thomas Graf: o [TCP]: Fix calculation for collapsed skb size Summary of changes from v2.4.29 to v2.4.30-pre1 ============================================ <akeptner:sgi.com>: o [TG3]: Always copy receive packets when 5701 PCIX workaround enabled <albertcc:tw.ibm.com>: o [libata] SCSI-to-ATA translation fixes <fli:ati.com>: o [libata sata_sil] support ATI IXP300/IXP400 SATA <james4765:cwazy.co.uk>: o lcd: Add checks to CAP_SYS_ADMIN to potentially dangerous ioctl's o lcd: fix memory leak in lcd_ioctl() <jason.d.gaston:intel.com>: o SATA AHCI support for Intel ICH7R <jpaana:s2.org>: o [libata sata_promise] add PCI ID for new SATAII TX2 card <krzysztof.h1:wp.pl>: o [SPARC]: Fix asm constraints in muldiv.c <mark.haigh:spirentcom.com>: o sym53c8xx.c: Add ULL suffix to fix warning o arch/i386/kernel/pci-irq.c: Wrong message output <mkrikis:yahoo.com>: o fix an oops in ata_to_sense_error o libata: fix ata_piix on ICH6R in RAID mode <npollitt:mvista.com>: o Configure mangles hex values <syntax:pa.net>: o [libata sata_sil] add another Seagate drive to blacklist Adrian Bunk: o scsi/ahci.c: remove an unused function Andrew Chew: o sata_nv: enable generic class support for future NVIDIA SATA Brett Russ: o [libata scsi] verify cmd bug fixes/support Chris Wright: o Fix potential leak of kernel data to user space in wireless private handler helper David S. Miller: o [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate o [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate o [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate o [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate o [SPARC64]: __atomic_{add,sub}() must sign-extend return value o [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate o [SPARC64]: atomic and bitop fixes o [SPARC64]: Add missing membars for xchg() and cmpxchg() o [SPARC64]: Add missing membars for xchg() and cmpxchg() o [SPARC64]: Mask off stack ptr in alloc_user_space() for 32-bit o [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate Ernie Petrides: o fix for memory corruption from /proc/kcore access Grant Grundler: o [TG3]: Clean up grc_local_ctrl usage Haroldo Gamal: o [libata sata_sil] add another Seagate driver to blacklist Heinz J. Mauelshagen: o fix panics while backing up LVM snapshots Herbert Xu: o [NET]: Add missing memory barrier to kfree_skb() o [NET]: Add barriers for dst refcnt Jean Delvare: o PCI: Kill duplicate definition of INTEL_82801DB_10 o I2C updates: The "bit" and "pcf" i2c algorithms should declare themselves fully I2C capable o I2C updates: small header cleanups o I2C updates: Document that the "id" member of the i2c_client structure was discarded in Linux 2.6 Jeff Garzik: o [libata] add DMA blacklist o [libata] Remove CDROM drive from PATA DMA blacklist o [libata sata_promise] support Promise SATAII TX2/TX4 cards o [libata ahci] Add support for ULi M5288 Len Brown: o [ACPI] via interrupt quirk fix from 2.6 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3319 Luca Tettamanti: o Fix MSF overflow in ide-cd with multisession DVDs Marcelo Tosatti: o Karsten Keil: Eicon Diva PCI 2.02 bugfix o Cset exclude: [EMAIL PROTECTED]|ChangeSet|20050119161632|63236 o Ake Sandgren: Fix RLIMIT_RSS madvise calculation bug o Cset exclude: [EMAIL PROTECTED]|ChangeSet|20050128083257|00819 o Hugh Dickins: remove rlim_rss and this RLIMIT_RSS code from madvise. Presumably the code crept in by mistake o Changed VERSION to 2.4.30-pre1 o Linus Torvalds: backport 2.6 rw_verify_area() to check against file offset overflows o Linus Torvalds: Add extra debugging help for bad user accesses o Solar Designer: missing f_maxcount initialization o Cset exclude: [EMAIL PROTECTED]|ChangeSet|20050203152306|59941 o rw_verify_area() cleanup o Cset exclude: [EMAIL PROTECTED]|ChangeSet|20050209150113|54411 Matthew Wilcox: o [IPV4]: ipconfig should use memmove() instead of strcpy() Michael Chan: o [TG3]: add tg3_set_eeprom() o [TG3]: Fix TSO for 5750 o [TG3]: 5750 fixes o [TG3]: 5704 serdes fixes Michal Ostrowski: o [MAINTAINERS]: Fix my email address in PPPOE entry Patrick McHardy: o [IPV4]: Keep fragment queues private to each user o [NETFILTER]: Fix ip_fw_compat.c build after IP_DEFRAG_* changes Paul Clements: o nbd: fix ioctl permissions Pete Zaitcev: o USB: Prevent hiddev from looping o USB: Workarounds for Genesys Logics o [libata] fix probe object allocation bugs Rogier Wolff: o Rogier Wolff: fix nbd ioctl permissions Stephen Hemminger: o [PKT_SCHED]: netem: memory leak Thomas Graf: o [NET]: Set NLM_F_MULTI for neighbour rtnetlink messages to userspace o [PKT_SCHED]: Fix ingress qdisc to pick up IPv6 packets when using netfilter hooks o [NETLINK]: Use SKB_MAXORDER to calculate NLMSG_GOODSIZE Tom Rini: o ppc32: Fix a problem with the TLB Miss handler - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/