-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-9988 2012-06-28 02:40:37 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : kernel Product : Fedora 17 Version : 3.4.4 Release : 3.fc17 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 3.4.4 Assorted additional bugfixes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Jun 26 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> 3.4.4-3 - Add mm-correctly-synchronize-rss-counters-at-exit-exec.patch (rhbz 832867) * Tue Jun 26 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Add task_work_add backport from Anton Arapov - Add patch to fix mount hangs (rhbz 835019) * Tue Jun 26 2012 John W. Linville <[email protected]> - ath9k_htc: configure bssid on ASSOC/IBSS change (rhbz 828731) * Fri Jun 22 2012 Justin M. Forbes <[email protected]> 3.4.4-1 - Linux 3.4.4 * Fri Jun 22 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Add uprobe backports from Anton Arapov (rhbz 832083) - Disable UDL DRM driver per Dave Airlie * Wed Jun 20 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Fix incorrect logic in irqpoll patch * Tue Jun 19 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Add proposed patch to fix READ_CAPACITY command on usb keys (rhbz 831807) * Mon Jun 18 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Output taint info when the RSS counter check trips up. * Mon Jun 18 2012 Justin M. Forbes <[email protected]> 3.4.3-1 - Linux 3.4.3 * Mon Jun 18 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Add patch to fix CIFS password mount option parsing (rhbz 832741) - Add patch to fix udl device binding (rhbz 832188) * Wed Jun 13 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Add patches to fix NFS shutdown panic (rhbz 830862) * Tue Jun 12 2012 Dennis Gilmore <[email protected]> - build in RTC modules on arm boards as the module gets loaded after the rtc is read * Mon Jun 11 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Add virtual provides for kernel-module to kernel-modules-extra (rhbz 770444) - Add patch to fix xen domU 32bit (rhbz 829016) - Add two upstream commits to fix flaky iwlwifi (rhbz 825491) * Sat Jun 9 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> 3.4.2-1 - Linux v3.4.2 * Fri Jun 8 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Enable HV assisted KVM on ppc64 * Fri Jun 8 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Backport edid header fixup threashold patch from Adam Jackson (rhbz 582559) * Wed Jun 6 2012 Dennis Gilmore <[email protected]> 3.4.1-2 - add patch from calxeda to enable the highbank kernel to boot - on real hardware * Tue Jun 5 2012 Dennis Gilmore <[email protected]> - add patch to register omapdrm to the platforms so that we get - working console framebuffer and X on panda and beagle boards * Tue Jun 5 2012 Peter Robinson <[email protected]> - Update ARM config options for 3.4 - Enable MTD/UBI/JFFS2 on ARM platforms * Mon Jun 4 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> 3.4.1-1 - Linux v3.4.1 * Mon Jun 4 2012 Dave Jones <[email protected]> - Disable 32bit NX emulation. * Sat Jun 2 2012 Justin M. Forbes <[email protected]> 3.4.0-1 - Linux 3.4 - Stable queue updates * Wed May 30 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - CVE-2012-2390 huge pages: memory leak on mmap failure (rhbz 824352 824345) * Fri May 25 2012 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]> - Don't manually customise tuners/frontends (rhbz 825203) * Thu May 24 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - CVE-2012-2372 mm: 32bit PAE pmd walk vs populate SMP race (rhbz 822821 822825) * Wed May 23 2012 Adam Jackson <[email protected]> - drm-i915-lvds-dual-channel.patch: Scrape dual-channel-ness for LVDS out of the VBT, rather than just making things up. (#819343) * Mon May 21 2012 Justin M. Forbes <[email protected]> 3.3.7-1 - Linux 3.3.7 - Disable CONFIG_RELOCATABLE for 32bit builds. Turn back on for 3.4 * 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) - Enable cpu_idle drivers for ppc64/pseries (requested by Ben Herrenschmidt) * Wed May 16 2012 Dennis Gilmore <[email protected]> - set arch for arm kernel to VEXPRESS allows v7 emulation - enable SMP everywhere but disable on kirkwood as its up only * Wed May 16 2012 Justin M. Forbes <[email protected]> 3.3.6-3 - fix rtl8187: ->brightness_set can not sleep (rhbz 795176) * Wed May 16 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Update the vgaarb patches to pick up a small switcheroo fix from airlied * Tue May 15 2012 Dennis Gilmore <[email protected]> - add patch to setup usb correctly on beagleboards - allows networking to work * Tue May 15 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Fixup atl1c register programming (rhbz 749276) * Mon May 14 2012 Justin M. Forbes <[email protected]> 3.3.6-1 - Linux 3.3.6 * Mon May 14 2012 Josh Boyer <[email protected]> - Enable DRM_VIA again per Adam Jackson -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #832867 - BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:xxxxxxxx idx:1 val:-2 output in console https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=832867 [ 2 ] Bug #835019 - trying to mount an empty 1K partition causes a hang in ext4 driver, using 100% CPU https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=835019 [ 3 ] Bug #828731 - Very high packet loss rate with kernel 3.4.1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=828731 [ 4 ] Bug #832083 - missing utrace / uprobes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=832083 [ 5 ] Bug #831807 - kernel thinks my usb is 18.3EB in size https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831807 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. 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