Module Name: src
Committed By: snj
Date: Wed Nov 3 08:03:33 UTC 2010
Modified Files:
src/distrib/notes/common [netbsd-5]: main
Log Message:
Bring in some changes from changes51.xml 1.7 and 1.8.
To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.425.2.7 -r1.425.2.8 src/distrib/notes/common/main
Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.
Modified files:
Index: src/distrib/notes/common/main
diff -u src/distrib/notes/common/main:1.425.2.7 src/distrib/notes/common/main:1.425.2.8
--- src/distrib/notes/common/main:1.425.2.7 Sat Apr 24 06:48:22 2010
+++ src/distrib/notes/common/main Wed Nov 3 08:03:32 2010
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: main,v 1.425.2.7 2010/04/24 06:48:22 snj Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: main,v 1.425.2.8 2010/11/03 08:03:32 snj Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1999-2008 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -558,6 +558,11 @@
Fix an NX regression observed on amd64 kernels, where per-page execution right
was disabled (therefore leading to the inability of the kernel to detect
fraudulent use of memory mappings marked as not being executable).
+.It
+.Xr ftpd 8
+and
+.Xr sftp 1 :
+Prevent remote DoS attack with glob patterns.
.bullet)
.
.Ss2 Kernel
@@ -600,6 +605,8 @@
PR 41620.
.It
Fix ktrace of data from iovec based system calls. PR 41819.
+.It
+Fix stack size enforcement.
.bullet)
.
.Ss2 File Systems
@@ -642,6 +649,8 @@
.
.It
Add support for file sizes greater than 4GB.
+.It
+Prevent malicious local program from causing a kernel crash.
.bullet)
.
.It
@@ -669,6 +678,15 @@
PR 41494.
.It
Various improvements to UDF.
+.It
+xattr: Fix system crash which could be triggered by a malicious command.
+.It
+coda: Fix incomplete ioctl parameter verification.
+.It
+ffs: Fix a race condition which could lead to data corruption.
+.It
+.Xr wapbl 4 :
+Fix replay problems which could corrupt the fs. PR 43336.
.bullet)
.
.Ss2 Networking
@@ -785,6 +803,10 @@
.It
.Xr tap 4 :
Fix a potential leak on device close.
+.Xr bpf 4 :
+Prevent malicious bytecode from crashing the kernel with a divide-by-zero trap.
+.It
+UDPv6: Prevent local crash by malicious user program.
.bullet)
.
.Ss2 Miscellaneous Drivers
@@ -1006,12 +1028,18 @@
.bullet)
.
.It
-i386: The FPU Tag word is a 16bit register, in FPU (387) mode it defines 2-bit
+i386
+.(bullet
+.It
+The FPU Tag word is a 16bit register, in FPU (387) mode it defines 2-bit
tags for each FPU data register, in MMX mode it defines 1-bit tags for each
data register.
The single bit tags are stored in the lower 8 bits and thus in the first byte
of the save frame.
.It
+Fix a local user crash.
+.bullet)
+.It
ARM: Work-around a possible process exit corner case which can leave stale
data in the cache after a context-switch.
PR 41058.
@@ -1055,6 +1083,10 @@
.It
Fix a problem with the timecounter running backwards everytime the hardware
counter wraps and the clock-interrupt is not yet serviced by hardclock().
+.It
+Improve precision of small kernel delays.
+.It
+Fix keyboard handshaking problems on Amiga 1200.
.bullet)
.
.It
@@ -1220,6 +1252,10 @@
.It
Improve the algorithm used in pthread creation so that it does a better job of
reusing dead threads.
+.It
+Make sure thread id is set correctly in case a threaded program forks from a
+thread other than the main thread.
+Fixes issues with, e.g., ruby.
.bullet)
.
.It
@@ -1286,9 +1322,8 @@
Check validity of parent to avoid a potential segfault.
.It
.Xr sort 1 :
-Fix a ton of bugs.
-PR 18614 PR 27257 PR 25551 PR 22182 PR 31095 PR 30504 PR 36816 PR 37860 PR
-39308 PR 42094.
+Fix a ton of bugs including but not limited to PR 18614 PR 27257 PR 25551 PR 221
+82 PR 31095 PR 30504 PR 36816 PR 37860 PR 39308 PR 42094.
.It
.Xr user 8 :
Fix -p flag: rm_eo is the first character *after* the match, so no need for a +1. Blowfish hashes are only 53 chars long, not 54.
