-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2011-11995 2011-09-02 04:46:36 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : kernel Product : Fedora 15 Version : 2.6.40.4 Release : 5.fc15 URL : http://www.kernel.org/ Summary : The Linux kernel Description : The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Update to kernel 3.0.4: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.0.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Aug 30 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> 2.6.40.4-5 - Fix kconfig error in patch for rhbz 606017 * Tue Aug 30 2011 Chuck Ebbert <[email protected]> 2.6.40.4-4 - Fix unsafe pointer access in sendmsg/sendmmsg * Tue Aug 30 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Add patch to fix rhbz 606017 * Mon Aug 29 2011 Chuck Ebbert <[email protected]> 2.6.40.4-3 - Linux 3.0.4 * Sat Aug 27 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Fix get_gate_vma usage in 32bit NX emulation. * Fri Aug 26 2011 Chuck Ebbert <[email protected]> - Add fixes for cifs mount oopses (rhbz#727927 rhbz#731278 rhbz#732934) * Thu Aug 25 2011 Chuck Ebbert <[email protected]> - Reduce severity of host bridge window conflict warnings (rhbz#729652) * Thu Aug 25 2011 Chuck Ebbert <[email protected]> 2.6.40.3-2 - Add patches queued for 3.0.4 - Comment out xen-blkfront-name-adjust.patch, now queued for -stable * Thu Aug 25 2011 Chuck Ebbert <[email protected]> - VFS: Fix automount for negative autofs dentries (rhbz#719607) * Thu Aug 25 2011 Ben Skeggs <[email protected]> - nouveau: add patch fixing ttm issues that lead to oopses/corruption (rhbz#699551) * Wed Aug 24 2011 Chuck Ebbert <[email protected]> - Automate the kernel version faking. * Tue Aug 23 2011 Ben Skeggs <[email protected]> - nouveau: pull patches from 3.1 to fix some suspend/hibernate problems (rhbz#730582) * Mon Aug 22 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Revert 'iwlwifi: advertise max aggregate size'. (rhbz 708747) * Mon Aug 22 2011 Chuck Ebbert <[email protected]> - Update to 3.0.3-final * Mon Aug 22 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Avoid false quiescent states in rcutree with CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ. (rhbz 577968) * Fri Aug 19 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Add patch to fix race between cryptd and aesni (rhbz 721002) * Wed Aug 17 2011 Dennis Gilmore <[email protected]> - add patch to correctly initialise usb on trimslice systems - build in usb-storage on tegra, internal ssd on trimslice is connected to usb * Tue Aug 16 2011 Dennis Gilmore <[email protected]> - add patch to work around gcc bug on arm * Mon Aug 15 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> 2.6.40.3-0 - Apply patches from 3.0.3-rc1 * Mon Aug 15 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Apply patches from 3.0.2 * Mon Aug 15 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - CVE-2011-2905 perf tools may parse user-controlled config file. (rhbz 729809) * Sat Aug 13 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Apply patches from 3.0.2rc1 * Thu Aug 11 2011 Dennis Gilmore <[email protected]> - add config for arm tegra devices - setup kernel to build omap image (patch from David Marlin) - setup kernel to build tegra image based on omap work - add arm device tree patches * Thu Aug 11 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Add munged together patch for rhbz 729269 * Thu Aug 11 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Fix Xen blk device naming (rhbz 729340) * Tue Aug 9 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Add Makefile.config and ARM config changes from David Marlin * Tue Aug 9 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - ptrace_report_syscall: check if TIF_SYSCALL_EMU is defined * Tue Aug 9 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Enable CONFIG_SAMSUNG_LAPTOP (rhbz 729363) * Tue Aug 9 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> 2.6.40.1-2 - Fix stray block put after queue teardown (rhbz 728872) * Sun Aug 7 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Utrace fixes. (rhbz 728379) * Fri Aug 5 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> 2.6.40.1-1 - Revert f16-only change that made IPV6 built-in. * Fri Aug 5 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Final 3.0.1 diff. * Thu Aug 4 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Drop neuter_intel_microcode_load.patch (rhbz 690930) * Wed Aug 3 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - iwlagn: check for !priv->txq in iwlagn_wait_tx_queue_empty (rhbz 728044) * Wed Aug 3 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Apply patches from patch-3.0.1-rc1 * Wed Aug 3 2011 John W. Linville <[email protected]> - Disable CONFIG_BCMA since no driver currently uses it (rhbz 727796) * Wed Aug 3 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - rt2x00: Add device ID for RT539F device. (rhbz 720594) - Add patch to fix backtrace in cdc_ncm driver (rhbz 720128) - Add patch to fix backtrace in usm-realtek driver (rhbz 720054) * Tue Aug 2 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Fix epoll recursive lockdep warnings (rhbz 722472) * Tue Aug 2 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Add patch to fix HFSPlus filesystem mounting (rhbz 720771) * Tue Aug 2 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Change USB_SERIAL_OPTION back to modular. (rhbz 727680) * Tue Aug 2 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> 2.6.40-5 - Add change from Yanko Kaneti to get the rt2x00 drivers in modules.networking (rhbz 708314) * Fri Jul 29 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> 2.6.40-4 - Re-add utrace, which got accidentally dropped during the rebase. * Thu Jul 28 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> 2.6.40-3 - Fix module-init-tools conflict: * Thu Jul 28 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> 2.6.40-2 - fix crash in scsi_dispatch_cmd() * Thu Jul 28 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> 2.6.40-1 - Turn off debugging options. (make release) * Tue Jul 26 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> 2.6.40-0 - Rebase to final 3.0 (munge to 2.6.40-0) * Thu Jun 30 2011 Kyle McMartin <[email protected]> 2.6.40-0.rc5.git0.1 - More than meets the eye, it's Linux 3.0-rc5 in disguise. * Mon Jun 27 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Disable CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER_DISABLE_TESTS, as this also disables FIPS (rhbz 716942) * Thu Jun 23 2011 Kyle McMartin <[email protected]> 3.0-0.rc4.git3.1 - Linux 3.0-rc4-git3 - Drop linux-3.0-fix-uts-release.patch, and instead just perl the Makefile - linux-2.6-silence-noise.patch: fix context - iwlagn-fix-dma-direction.patch: fix DMAR errors (for me at least) * Wed Jun 22 2011 Kyle McMartin <[email protected]> 3.0-0.rc4.git0.2 - Re-enable debuginfo generation. Thanks to Richard Jones for noticing... no wonder builds had been so quick lately. * Tue Jun 21 2011 Kyle McMartin <[email protected]> 3.0-0.rc4.git0.1 - Linux 3.0-rc4 (getting closer...) * Fri Jun 17 2011 Kyle McMartin <[email protected]> 3.0-0.rc3.git6.1 - Update to 3.0-rc3-git6 * Fri Jun 17 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - drop qcserial 'compile fix' that was just duplicating an include. - drop struct sizeof debug patch. (no real value. not upstreamable) - drop linux-2.6-debug-always-inline-kzalloc.patch. Can't recall why this was added. Can easily re-add if deemed necessary. * Fri Jun 17 2011 Kyle McMartin <[email protected]> - linux-2.6-defaults-pci_no_msi.patch: drop, haven't toggled the default in many moons. - linux-2.6-defaults-pci_use_crs.patch: ditto. - linux-2.6-selinux-mprotect-checks.patch: upstream a while ago. - drm-i915-gen4-has-non-power-of-two-strides.patch: drop buggy bugfix - drop some more unapplied crud. - We haven't applied firewire patches in a dogs age. * Fri Jun 17 2011 Kyle McMartin <[email protected]> 3.0-0.rc3.git5.1 - Try updating to a git snapshot for the first time in 3.0-rc, update to 3.0-rc3-git5 - Fix a subtle bug I introduced in 3.0-rc1, "patch-3." is 9 letters, not 10. * Thu Jun 16 2011 Kyle McMartin <[email protected]> - Disable mm patches which had been submitted against 2.6.39, as Rik reports they seem to aggravate a VM_BUG_ON. More investigation is necessary. * Wed Jun 15 2011 Kyle McMartin <[email protected]> - Conflict with pre-3.2.1-5 versions of mdadm. (#710646) * Wed Jun 15 2011 Kyle McMartin <[email protected]> - Build in aesni-intel on i686 for symmetry with 64-bit. * Tue Jun 14 2011 Kyle McMartin <[email protected]> 3.0-0.rc3.git0.3 - Fix libdm conflict (whose bright idea was it to give subpackages differing version numbers?) * Tue Jun 14 2011 Kyle McMartin <[email protected]> - Update to 3.0-rc3, add another conflicts to deal with 2 digit versions (libdm.) - Simplify linux-3.0-fix-uts-release.patch now that SUBLEVEL is optional. - revert-ftrace-remove-unnecessary-disabling-of-irqs.patch: drop upstreamed patch. - drm-intel-eeebox-eb1007-quirk.patch: ditto. - ath5k-disable-fast-channel-switching-by-default.patch: ditto. * Thu Jun 9 2011 Kyle McMartin <[email protected]> - ath5k-disable-fast-channel-switching-by-default.patch (rhbz#709122) (korgbz#34992) [a99168ee in wireless-next] * Thu Jun 9 2011 Kyle McMartin <[email protected]> 3.0-0.rc2.git0.2 - rhbz#710921: revert-ftrace-remove-unnecessary-disabling-of-irqs.patch * Wed Jun 8 2011 Kyle McMartin <[email protected]> 3.0-0.rc2.git0.1 - Update to 3.0-rc2, rebase utsname fix. - Build IPv6 into the kernel for a variety of reasons (http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kernel/2011-June/003105.html) * Mon Jun 6 2011 Kyle McMartin <[email protected]> 3.0-0.rc1.git0.3 - Conflict with module-init-tools older than 3.13 to ensure the 3.0 transition is handled correctly. * Wed Jun 1 2011 Kyle McMartin <[email protected]> 3.0-0.rc1.git0.2 - Fix utsname for 3.0-rc1 * Mon May 30 2011 Kyle McMartin <[email protected]> 3.0-0.rc1.git0.1 - Linux 3.0-rc1 (won't build until module-init-tools gets an update.) * Mon May 30 2011 Kyle McMartin <[email protected]> - Trimmed changelog, see fedpkg git for earlier history. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #721002 - Upgrade to Kernel Linux 2.6.38.8-35.fc15.x86_64 from 8-32 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=721002 [ 2 ] Bug #708747 - Extremely slow network with Intel "Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300" (iwlagn) after upgrade from Fedora 14 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708747 [ 3 ] Bug #730582 - suspend/resume crashes with nouveau and freezes my system completely https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730582 [ 4 ] Bug #729652 - PNP0A08: host bridge window [mem 0x000cc000-0x000cffff] conflicts with Video ROM [mem 0x000c0000-0x000cedff https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729652 [ 5 ] Bug #727927 - [cifs] Kernel 2.6.40.4 Panics on issue of mount command. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727927 [ 6 ] Bug #732934 - cifs mount fails on kernel 2.6.40+ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732934 [ 7 ] Bug #577968 - kernel 2.6.34-0.16.rc2.git0.fc14.x86_64 gets GPF at cfq_free_io_context+0x18/0x34 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577968 [ 8 ] Bug #726868 - 2.6.40-4.fc15.x86_64 BTRFS crash https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=726868 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. 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