-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-8931 2012-06-07 01:36:45 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : kernel Product : Fedora 15 Version : 2.6.43.8 Release : 1.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 Linux 2.6.43.8 (3.3.8). Disabled 32bit NX emulation. Suspected of being broken and it deviates from upstream. Unless there are further security issues, this will likely be the last F15 kernel update before End-of-Life. The 3.3.7 stable kernel contains a number of important bug fixes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Mon Jun 4 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> 2.6.43.8-1 - Linux v3.3.8 * Mon Jun 4 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Disable 32bit NX emulation. * Wed May 30 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - CVE-2012-2390 huge pages: memory leak on mmap failure (rhbz 824352 824345) * Thu May 24 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - CVE-2012-2372 mm: 32bit PAE pmd walk vs populate SMP race (rhbz 822821 822825) * Mon May 21 2012 Justin M. Forbes <[email protected]> 3.3.7-1 - Linux 3.3.7 * Fri May 18 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Additional fixes for CVE-2011-4131 (rhbz 822874 822869) * Thu May 17 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Fix rtlwifi async firmware load race condition (rhbz 822120) * Wed May 16 2012 Justin M. Forbes <[email protected]> 2.6.43.6-3 - fix rtl8187: ->brightness_set can not sleep (rhbz 795176) * Tue May 15 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Fixup atl1c register programming (rhbz 749276) * Mon May 14 2012 Justin M. Forbes <[email protected]> 2.6.43.6-1 - Linux 3.3.6 * Mon May 7 2012 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]> 2.6.43.5-2 - Add patch to fix DVB-S zigzag (rhbz 814404) * Mon May 7 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> 2.6.43.5-1 - Linux 3.3.5 - Add patch to rate limit NFSv4 message (rhbz 732748) * Fri May 4 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - unfiltered netdev rio_ioctl access by users (rhbz 818820) * Mon Apr 30 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Backport ipw2x00 nl80211 cipher suite reporting (rhbz 817298) * Mon Apr 30 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Disable CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ for now. (rhbz 806548) * Mon Apr 30 2012 Justin M. Forbes <[email protected]> 2.6.43.4-1 - Linux 3.3.4 * Tue Apr 24 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Add patch to fix perf build due to incorrect cherry-pick in 3.3.3 - Add patch to fix ipw2200 (rhbz 783708) * Mon Apr 23 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Linux 3.3.3 * Mon Apr 23 2012 Peter Hutterer <[email protected]> - Fix regression on clickpads * Sat Apr 21 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - 2.6.43.2-6 - Fix error check in memblock that prevented boot on various Dells (rhbz 811225) * Fri Apr 20 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - CVE-2012-2123 fcaps: clear the same personality flags as suid when fcaps are used (rhbz 814523 806722) * Thu Apr 19 2012 Justin M. Forbes <[email protected]> 2.6.43.2-4 - CVE-2012-2119 macvtap: zerocopy: vector length is not validated before pinning user pages (rhbz 814278 814289) * Thu Apr 19 2012 Justin M. Forbes <[email protected]> - Fix KVM device assignment page leak (rhbz 814149 814155) * Wed Apr 18 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Change patch to resolve libata hotplug (rhbz 807632) - Disable CONFIG_HID_BATTERY_STRENGTH (rhbz 806295) * Tue Apr 17 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Fix oops in nfs_have_delegation (rhbz 811138) - Fix oops on invalid AMD microcode load (rhbz 797559) * Sat Apr 14 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Add ALSA quirk for MacPro 5,1 machines (rhbz 808559) * Fri Apr 13 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Reapply rebased drivers-media-update.patch * Fri Apr 13 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> 2.6.43.2-1 - Linux 3.3.2 * Thu Apr 12 2012 Dennis Gilmore <[email protected]> - KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS=1 has to be passed in on the command line so do so only for arm * Tue Apr 10 2012 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]> - Backport dvb-core and a few driver fixes from media tree (rhbz808871) * Tue Apr 10 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Apply upstream patch to add USB device 13d3:3375 (rhbz 811087) - Backport fixes for correct register constraints in cmpxchg.h (rhbz 809014) * Thu Apr 5 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Better watermark the number of pages used by hibernation I/O (Bojan Smojver) (rhbz 785384) * Wed Apr 4 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Disable runtime PM for hotpluggable ATA ports (rhbz 806676 807632) - Fix NULL pointer dereference in i2400m (rhbz 808603) * Tue Apr 3 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Fix crash in uvc_video_clock_update from Laurent Pinchart (rhbz 806433) - iwl{wifi,legacy}: Fix warnings on remove interface from Stanislaw Gruszka (rhbz 770467) * Tue Apr 3 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> 2.6.43.1-2 - Disable CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC in -debug builds again. * Mon Apr 2 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Linux 3.3.1 * Mon Apr 2 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Linux 3.3 * Fri Mar 30 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Silence the timekeeping "Adjusting tsc more then 11%" spew. (rhbz 798600) * Fri Mar 30 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - CVE-2012-1601: kvm: NULL dereference from irqchip_in_kernel and vcpu->arch.apic inconsistency (rhbz 808207) - Add patch to fix incorrect buffer length in __nfs4_get_acl_uncached * Thu Mar 29 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Drop __cpuinitdata on disable_nx for x86_32 (rhbz 808075) * Mon Mar 26 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Linux 3.2.13 * Tue Mar 20 2012 Justin M. Forbes <[email protected]> 2.6.42.12-1 - Linux 3.2.10 - CVE-2012-1568 SHLIB_BASE randomization (rhbz 804947) * Tue Mar 20 2012 Steve Dickson <[email protected]> - NFSv4: Save the owner/group name string when doing open (bz 794780) * Tue Mar 20 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - mac80211: fix possible tid_rx->reorder_timer use after free from Stanislaw Gruska (rhbz 804007) * Fri Mar 16 2012 Justin M. Forbes <[email protected]> - re-enable threading on hibernate compression/decompression * Fri Mar 16 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Fix irqpoll patch to really only apply for ASM108x machines (rhbz 800520) * Thu Mar 15 2012 Justin M. Forbes <[email protected]> - 2.6.42.10-3 - CVE-2012-1179 fix pmd_bad() triggering in code paths holding mmap_sem read mode (rhbz 803809) * Wed Mar 14 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Fixup irqpoll patch to only activate on machines with ASM108x PCI bridge * Wed Mar 14 2012 Steve Dickson <[email protected]> - Reduce the foot print of the NFSv4 idmapping coda (bz 593035) * Mon Mar 12 2012 Justin M. Forbes <[email protected]> - 2.6.42.10-1 - Linux 3.2.10 * Mon Mar 12 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Add patch to ignore bogus io-apic entries (rhbz 801501) * Wed Mar 7 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Add debug patch for bugs 787171/766277 * Wed Mar 7 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - CVE-2012-1146: memcg: unregister events attached to the same eventfd can oops (rhbz 800817) * Mon Mar 5 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - CVE-2012-1097 regset: Prevent null pointer reference on readonly regsets - Add patch to fix BUG_ON mm->nr_ptes (rhbz 786632) * Fri Mar 2 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Enable VM debugging in non-debug kernels too. * Fri Mar 2 2012 Justin M. Forbes <[email protected]> - Disable threading in hibernate compression/decompression * Fri Mar 2 2012 Adam Jackson <[email protected]> - drm-intel-crtc-dpms-fix.patch: Fix system hang on gen2 kit on DPMS (#730853) * Thu Mar 1 2012 Justin M. Forbes <[email protected]> 2.6.42.9-1 - Linux 3.2.9 * Thu Mar 1 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Temporarily enable CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC in -debug builds to help track down some long-standing bugs. Note: This will make -debug builds even slower than normal. * Thu Mar 1 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - temporarily switch to low-performance polling IRQ mode when unexpected IRQs occur. * Tue Feb 28 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Add patch to enable keyboard backlight on Sony laptops (rhbz 728478) * Tue Feb 28 2012 Justin M. Forbes <[email protected]> 2.6.42.7-3 - CVE-2012-1090 CIFS: fix dentry refcount leak when opening a FIFO on lookup (rhbz 798296) * Mon Feb 27 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Add patch to fix regression in FADT revision checks (rhbz 730007 727865) * Mon Feb 20 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> 2.6.42.7-1 - Do not call drivers when invalidating partitions for -ENOMEDIUM * Mon Feb 20 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Linux 3.2.7 * Mon Feb 20 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - NFSv4: Fix an Oops in the NFSv4 getacl code * Fri Feb 17 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - improve handling of null rate in LIS3LV02Dx accelerometer driver. (rhbz 785814) * Fri Feb 17 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Reenable radio drivers. (rhbz 784824) * Thu Feb 16 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Freeze all filesystems during system suspend/hibernate. * Wed Feb 15 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Require newer linux-firmware for updated bnx2/bnx2x drivers * Mon Feb 13 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> 2.6.42.6-3 - Linux 3.2.6 * Fri Feb 10 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Patch to prevent NULL pointer dereference in sd_revalidate_disk (rhbz 754518) * Fri Feb 10 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Implement TIOCGSERIAL for acm_tty_ioctl (rhbz 787607) * Thu Feb 9 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - bsg: fix sysfs link remove warning (#787862) * Wed Feb 8 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> 2.6.42.3-2.fc15 - CVE-2011-4086: jbd2: unmapped buffer with _Unwritten or _Delay flags set can lead to DoS (rhbz 788260) - Drop patch that was NAKd upstream (rhbz 783211) - Fix e1000e Tx hang check (rhbz 785806) * Sun Feb 5 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Remove unnecessary block-stray-block-put-after-teardown.patch - readahead: fix pipeline break caused by block plug * Fri Feb 3 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Linux 3.2.3 * Thu Feb 2 2012 Dennis Gilmore <[email protected]> - add patch to ensure that mfd-core is builtin when building nvec on tegra - build nvec-leds on tegra kernel * Wed Feb 1 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Revert more f16 config changes that shouldn't be in f15. * Wed Feb 1 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Revert the f16 use-ext4-for-ext2/ext3 change. * Tue Jan 31 2012 Dennis Gilmore <[email protected]> - diable TOUCHSCREEN_EETI on all arm arches - add patch for arm mtd - add patch for stmmac on arm - disable USB_IMX21_HCD pn imx - enable CACHE_L2X0 on imx * Mon Jan 30 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Enable kmemleak (off by default) in kernel-debug (rhbz 782419) * Mon Jan 30 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Test fix for realtek_async_autopm oops from Stanislaw Gruszka (rhbz 784345) * Mon Jan 30 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Restore the Savage DRM and several others that were accidentally early-deprecated. * Mon Jan 30 2012 John W. Linville <[email protected]> - Reinstate patch to remove overlap between bcma/b43 and brcmsmac * Mon Jan 30 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> 2.6.42.2-1 - Rebase to 3.2.2 * Mon Jan 23 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> 2.6.41.10-3 - Fix NULL pointer dereference in sym53c8xx module (rhbz 781625) * Fri Jan 20 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Add mac80211 deauth fix pointed out by Stanislaw Gruszka * Wed Jan 18 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> 2.6.41.10-2 - Fix broken procfs backport (rhbz 782961) * Wed Jan 18 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> 2.6.41.10-1 - Linux 3.1.10 - /proc/pid/* information leak (rhbz 782686) * Wed Jan 18 2012 Dennis Gilmore <[email protected]> - build perf on armv7hl * Wed Jan 18 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - CVE-2012-0056 proc: clean up and fix /proc/<pid>/mem (rhbz 782681) - loop: prevent information leak after failed read (rhbz 782687) * Tue Jan 17 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - CVE-2011-4127 possible privilege escalation via SG_IO ioctl (rhbz 769911) * Sun Jan 15 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Avoid packaging symlinks for kernel-doc files (rhbz 767351) * Fri Jan 13 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Fix verbose logging messages in the rtl8192cu driver (rhbz 728740) * Fri Jan 13 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> 2.6.41.9-1 - Linux 3.1.9 - CVE-2012-0045 kvm: syscall instruction induced guest panic (rhbz 773392) * Wed Jan 11 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Patch from Stanislaw Gruszka to fix NULL ptr deref in mac80211 (rhbz 769766) * Tue Jan 10 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Fix ext3/ext4 corrupted bitmap error path (pointed out by Eric Sandeen) * Fri Jan 6 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> 2.6.41.8-1 - Linux 3.1.8 * Wed Jan 4 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - CVE-2011-4347 kvm: device assignment DoS (rhbz 770096) * Tue Jan 3 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> 2.6.41.7-1 - Linux 3.1.7 * Tue Jan 3 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Add bluetooth support for BCM20102A0 (rhbz 770233) * Tue Jan 3 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - CVE-2011-4622 kvm: pit timer with no irqchip crashes the system (rhbz 770102) * Tue Jan 3 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - thp: reduce khugepaged freezing latency (rhbz 771006) * Wed Dec 21 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> 2.6.41.6-1 - Linux 3.1.6 (Fedora 2.6.31.6) * Wed Dec 21 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> 2.6.41.5-5 - Reinstate the route cache garbage collector. * Tue Dec 20 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Fix config options in arm configs after latest commits - Backport upstream fix for b44_poll oops (rhbz #741117) * Mon Dec 19 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - x86, dumpstack: Fix code bytes breakage due to missing KERN_CONT * Thu Dec 15 2011 Dennis Gilmore <[email protected]> - build imx highbank and kirkwood kernel variants on arm - add patch for tegra usb storage resets - omap config cleanups from dmarlin * Thu Dec 15 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - 2.6.41.5-4 - Add patch to fix Intel wifi regression in 3.1.5 (rhbz 767173) - Add patch from Jeff Layton to fix suspend with NFS (rhbz #717735) - Backport ALPS touchpad patches from input/next branch (rhbz #590880) * Thu Dec 15 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - 2.6.41.5-3 - Disable Intel IOMMU by default. * Fri Dec 9 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> 2.6.41.5-1 - Linux 3.1.5 (Fedora 2.6.41.5) * Thu Dec 8 2011 Chuck Ebbert <[email protected]> 2.6.41.5-0.rc2.1 - Linux 3.1.5-rc2 (Fedora 2.6.41.5-rc2) - Fix wrong link speed on some sky2 network adapters (rhbz #757839) * Wed Dec 7 2011 Chuck Ebbert <[email protected]> - Linux 3.1.5-rc1 (Fedora 2.6.41.5-rc1) - Comment out merged patches: xfs-Fix-possible-memory-corruption-in-xfs_readlink.patch rtlwifi-fix-lps_lock-deadlock.patch * Tue Dec 6 2011 Chuck Ebbert <[email protected]> - Disable uas until someone can fix it (rhbz #717633) * Tue Dec 6 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Add reworked pci ASPM patch from Matthew Garrett * Mon Dec 5 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Only print the apm_cpu_idle message once (rhbz #760341) * Mon Dec 5 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Switch from -Os to -O2 * Thu Dec 1 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Apply patch to revert mac80211 scan optimizations (rhbz #731365) - Disable the existing brcm80211 staging drivers (rhbz #759109) * Wed Nov 30 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Include commit 3940d6185 from JJ Ding in elantech.patch * Tue Nov 29 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Add patch to fix deadlock in rtlwifi (rhbz #755154) - Drop drm-intel-make-lvds-work.patch (rhbz #731296) * Mon Nov 28 2011 Chuck Ebbert <[email protected]> 2.6.41.4-1 - Linux 3.1.4 (Fedora 2.6.41.4) * Mon Nov 28 2011 Chuck Ebbert <[email protected]> 3.1.4-1 - Linux 3.1.4 * Mon Nov 28 2011 Chuck Ebbert <[email protected]> - Fix IRQ error preventing load of cciss module (rhbz#754907) * Mon Nov 28 2011 Ben Skeggs <[email protected]> - nouveau: fix two instances of an oops in ttm clear() (rhbz#751753) * Mon Nov 28 2011 Chuck Ebbert <[email protected]> 2.6.41.3-1 - Fake version 2.6.4X by changing UTSNAME (instead of changing the internal kernel version) * Sun Nov 27 2011 Chuck Ebbert <[email protected]> - Linux 3.1.3 (Fedora 2.6.41.3) * Wed Nov 23 2011 Chuck Ebbert <[email protected]> 2.6.41.3-0.rc1.1 - Linux 3.1.3-rc1 (Fedora 2.6.41.3-rc1) - Comment out merged patches: usb-add-quirk-for-logitech-webcams.patch ip6_tunnel-copy-parms.name-after-register_netdevice.patch * Tue Nov 22 2011 Chuck Ebbert <[email protected]> 2.6.41.2-1 - Linux 3.1.2 (Fedora 2.6.41.2) * Sat Nov 19 2011 Chuck Ebbert <[email protected]> 2.6.41.2-0.rc1.1 - Linux 3.1.2-rc1 (Fedora 2.6.41.2-rc1) * Fri Nov 18 2011 Dennis Gilmore <[email protected]> - enable selinux to work on arm * Wed Nov 16 2011 Kyle McMartin <[email protected]> - Work around #663080 on s390x and restore building perf there. * Tue Nov 15 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - mm: Do not stall in synchronous compaction for THP allocations * Mon Nov 14 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Patch from Joshua Roys to add rtl8192* to modules.networking (rhbz 753645) - Add patch for wacom tablets for Bastien Nocera (upstream 3797ef6b6) - Add patch to fix ip6_tunnel naming (rhbz 751165) - Quite warning in apm_cpu_idle (rhbz 753776) * Mon Nov 14 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> 2.6.41.1-2 - CVE-2011-4131: nfs4_getfacl decoding kernel oops (rhbz 753236) - CVE-2011-4132: jbd/jbd2: invalid value of first log block leads to oops (rhbz 753346) * Fri Nov 11 2011 Chuck Ebbert <[email protected]> - Use the same naming scheme as rawhide for -stable RC kernels (e.g. 2.6.41.1-0.rc1.1 instead of 2.6.41.1-1.rc1) * Fri Nov 11 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> 2.6.41.1-1 - Linux 3.1.1 * Fri Nov 11 2011 John W. Linville <[email protected]> - Remove overlap between bcma/b43 and brcmsmac and reenable bcm4331 * Thu Nov 10 2011 Chuck Ebbert <[email protected]> - Sync samsung-laptop driver with what's in 3.2 (rhbz 747560) * Wed Nov 9 2011 Chuck Ebbert <[email protected]> 2.6.41.1-1.rc1 - Linux 3.1.1-rc1 (Fedora 2.6.41.1-rc1) - Comment out merged patches, will drop when release is final: ums-realtek-driver-uses-stack-memory-for-DMA.patch epoll-fix-spurious-lockdep-warnings.patch crypto-register-cryptd-first.patch add-macbookair41-keyboard.patch powerpc-Fix-deadlock-in-icswx-code.patch iwlagn-fix-ht_params-NULL-pointer-dereference.patch mmc-Always-check-for-lower-base-frequency-quirk-for-.patch media-DiBcom-protect-the-I2C-bufer-access.patch media-dib0700-protect-the-dib0700-buffer-access.patch WMI-properly-cleanup-devices-to-avoid-crashes.patch * Wed Nov 9 2011 John W. Linville <[email protected]> - Backport brcm80211 from 3.2-rc1 * Mon Nov 7 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Rebase to 3.1.0 * Thu Nov 3 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Add patches queued for 3.2 for elantech driver (rhbz 728607) * Wed Nov 2 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Add patch to fix oops when removing wmi module (rhbz 706574) * Tue Nov 1 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> 2.6.40.8-5 - allow building the perf rpm for ARM (rhbz 741325) * Tue Nov 1 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> 2.6.40.8-4 - Drop x86-efi-Calling-__pa-with-an-ioremap-address-is-invalid (rhbz 748516) * Tue Nov 1 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Add another Sony laptop to the nonvs blacklist. (rhbz 641789) * Mon Oct 31 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - CVE-2011-4097: oom_badness() integer overflow (rhbz 750402) * Fri Oct 28 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Add patch to prevent tracebacks on a warning in floppy.c (rhbz 749887) * Wed Oct 26 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> 2.6.40.8-2 - CVE-2011-4077: xfs: potential buffer overflow in xfs_readlink() (rhbz 749166) * Tue Oct 25 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - CVE-2011-3347: be2net: promiscuous mode and non-member VLAN packets DoS (rhbz 748691) - CVE-2011-1083: excessive in kernel CPU consumption when creating large nested epoll structures (rhbz 748668) * Tue Oct 25 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Linux 3.0.8 stable release * Mon Oct 24 2011 Chuck Ebbert <[email protected]> - Add patch from LKML to fix Samsung notebook brightness flicker (rhbz 737108) * Mon Oct 24 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Print modules list from bad_page() * Mon Oct 24 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> 2.6.40.7-3 - Backport 3 fixed from linux-next to fix dib0700 playback (rhbz 733827) * Fri Oct 21 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Lower severity of Radeon lockup messages. * Thu Oct 20 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Add backport for P4 watchdog and perf support from Don Zickus (rhbz 713675) * Wed Oct 19 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Add Sony VGN-FW21E to nonvs blacklist. (rhbz 641789) * Tue Oct 18 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Add patch to fix invalid EFI remap calls from Matt Fleming - Add patch to fix lock inversion introduced in 3.0.7 * Mon Oct 17 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> 2.6.40.7-0 - Linux 3.0.7 stable release - Add two patches to fix stalls in khugepaged (rhbz 735946) * Thu Oct 13 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Update usb-add-quirk-for-logitech-webcams.patch with C600 ID (rhbz 742010) * Thu Oct 13 2011 Adam Jackson <[email protected]> - drm/i915: Treat SDVO LVDS as digital when parsing EDID (#729882) * Tue Oct 11 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - fix memory leak in fuse (rhbz 745241) * Tue Oct 11 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - add e1000e workaround for packet drop on 82579 at 100Mbps (rhbz 713315) * Thu Oct 6 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Add patch to fix base frequency check for Ricoh e823 devices (rhbz 722509) * Mon Oct 3 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> 2.6.40.6-0 - Linux 3.0.6 stable release * Mon Oct 3 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> 2.6.40.4-6 - Add patch to fix PIE execution when ASLR is disabled at runtime (rhbz 708563) * Thu Sep 29 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Backport two upstream patches to fix rhbz 700718 * Wed Sep 28 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Backport upstream block patch to try and fix a number of oopses we're seeing with USB drive removals - Update usb-add-quirk-for-logitech-webcams.patch (rhbz 742010) * Tue Sep 27 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Backport support for Samsung n150 class machines (rhbz 496975) * Mon Sep 26 2011 Chuck Ebbert <[email protected]> - Fix breakage of Apple MagicMouse/Trackpad (rhbz #714381) * Fri Sep 23 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Add patch to fix 1 second delay from MD driver during shutdown (rhbz 740645) - CVE-2011-1161 CVE-2011-1162: tpm: infoleaks * Thu Sep 22 2011 Dennis Gilmore <[email protected]> - build a vmlinux image on sparc64 * Thu Sep 15 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - CVE-2011-3191: cifs: fix possible memory corruption in CIFSFindNext * Wed Sep 7 2011 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Add patch to fix oops when linking entities in ucvideo (rhbz 735437) * Wed Aug 31 2011 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Reinstate some conflicts: that disappeared during the rebase (rhbz 710646) * 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 #822821 - CVE-2012-2373 kernel: mm: read_pmd_atomic: 32bit PAE pmd walk vs pmd_populate SMP race condition https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=822821 [ 2 ] Bug #824345 - CVE-2012-2390 kernel: huge pages: memory leak on mmap failure https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824345 [ 3 ] Bug #822869 - CVE-2012-2375 kernel: incomplete fix for CVE-2011-4131 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=822869 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. 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