Re: [PATCH 1/8] Move MSR accessors into the sub-arch layer

* Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: i386 Transparent Paravirtualization Subarch Patch #1 This change encapsulates MSR register accessors and moves them into the sub-architecture layer. The goal is a clean, uniform interface that may be redefined on new sub-architectures of i386. I

Re: [PATCH] 3/8 Move sensitive system definitions into the sub-arch layer

* Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: i386 Transparent Paravirtualization Subarch Patch #3 This change encapsulates privileged control register and flags accessors into the sub-architecture layer. The goal is a clean, uniform interface that may be redefined on new sub-architectures of

Re: [PATCH] 6/8 Move sensitive I/O instructions into the sub-arch layer

* Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Move I/O instructions into the sub-arch layer where they can be overridden. As I already mentioned, this one needs refactoring on my side before I can give a review...tomorrow... thanks, -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH] 5/8 Move descriptor table management into the sub-arch layer

* Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This change encapsulates descriptor and task register management. These will need some merging together, will take a stab tomorrow. --- linux-2.6.12-xen0-arch.orig/include/asm-i386/desc.h +++ linux-2.6.12-xen0-arch/include/asm-i386/desc.h @@ -14,9

Re: [PATCH] 4/8 Move TLB flush definitions to the sub-architecture level

* Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: i386 Transparent Paravirtualization Patch #4 This change encapsulates TLB flush accessors into the sub-architecture layer. Hrm, same here (pushed too much to subarch), so I'll update that one and report back tomorrow. thanks, -chris - To

Re: [PATCH] 7/8 Create accessors that allow the i386 kernel to run at CPLs 0-2

* Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: These changes allow a sub-architecture to change the notion of privilege by running the kernel at CPL 0, 1, or 2. The make_kernel_segment() macro can be redefined by a subarchitecture to change the RPL on kernel segments to the appropriate value,

Re: [PATCH] 8/8 Create MMU 2/3 level accessors in the sub-arch layer (i386)

* Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: All operations which update live page table entries have been moved to the sub-architecture layer. Unfortunately, this required yet another parallel set of pgtable-Nlevel-ops.h files, but this avoids the ugliness of having to use #ifdef's all of the

Re: [PATCH 1/8] Move MSR accessors into the sub-arch layer

* H. Peter Anvin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I would like to strongly request one addition, however: please make it so that a subarchitecture which is still a hardware architecture doesn't have to redefine all of these every time. Yep, that's done. As long as the defaults are ok, the subarch

Re: [PATCH] abstract out bits of ldt.c

* Martin J. Bligh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Starting on the work to merge xen cleanly as a subarch. Introduce make_pages_readonly and make_pages_writable where appropriate for Xen, defined as a no-op on other subarches. Same for Maybe this is a bad name, since make_pages_readonly/writable

Re: [PATCH] abstract out bits of ldt.c

* Martin J. Bligh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: You're welcome to suggest something else if you want, though it would have been easier if you'd done it the first time you saw this patch, not now. Going through this stuff multiple times is going to get very boring very fast. Sorry, that's my

Re: [PATCH] abstract out bits of ldt.c

* Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Martin J. Bligh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: xen_make_pages_readonly / xen_make_pages_writable ? Well we don't want to assume xen at this stage. We're faced with a choice at present: to make the linux-hypervisor interface be some xen-specific and

Re: [PATCH] abstract out bits of ldt.c

* Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Does Xen assume page aligned descriptor tables? I assume from this Yes. patch and snippets I have gathered from others, that is a yes, and other things here imply that DT pages are not shadowed. If so, Xen itself must have live segments in the

Re: [PATCH] abstract out bits of ldt.c

* Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Doesn't that require 16 pages per CPU? That seems excessive to impose on a native build. Perhaps we could get away with 1 page per CPU for the GDT on native boots and bump that up to 16 if compiling for a virtualized sub-architecture - i.e. move

Re: capabilities patch (v 0.1)

* David Madore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Second, a much more extensive change, the patch introduces a third set of capabilities for every process, the bounding set. Normally this is not a good idea. don't add more sets. if you really want to work on this i'll give you all the patches that

[patch 25/24] x86-64: Mark rdtsc as sync only for netburst, not for core2

for this is a slightly slower gettimeofday (by a dozen or two cycles), but that increase is quite small to pay for a really-going-forward tsc counter. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [chrisw: backported to 2.6.18] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL

Linux 2.6.18.6

data_page is NULL Andy Gospodarek (1): bonding: incorrect bonding state reported via ioctl Arjan van de Ven (1): x86-64: Mark rdtsc as sync only for netburst, not for core2 Chris Wright (1): Linux 2.6.18.6 Christophe Saout (1): dm crypt: Fix data corruption with dm-crypt

Re: Linux 2.6.18.6

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 85d8009..c8b2f7e 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 6 SUBLEVEL = 18 -EXTRAVERSION = .5 +EXTRAVERSION = .6 NAME=Avast! A bilge rat! # *DOCUMENTATION* diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/calls.S

[patch 00/32] -stable review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.19.1 release. There are 32 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let us know. If anyone is a maintainer of the proper subsystem, and wants to add a

[patch 02/32] softmac: remove netif_tx_disable when scanning

-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_scan.c |2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.19.orig/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_scan.c +++ linux-2.6.19/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_scan.c @@ -47,7 +47,6

[patch 01/32] IPV6 NDISC: Calculate packet length correctly for allocation.

PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit 6e38433357e2381bb278a418fb7e2fd201475101 Author: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat Dec 2 21:00:06 2006 -0800 net/ipv6/ndisc.c | 16 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.19

[patch 12/32] NETFILTER: Fix {ip, ip6, arp}_tables hook validation

order and moves the standard checks to mark_source_chains. This allows to get rid of a special case for standard targets as a nice side-effect. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Mishin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit

[patch 07/32] NET_SCHED: policer: restore compatibility with old iproute binaries

-by: Jamal Hadi Salim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- net/sched/act_police.c | 26 ++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.19.orig/net/sched/act_police.c +++ linux

[patch 24/32] add bottom_half.h

: Randy.Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/bottom_half.h |5 + include/linux/interrupt.h |7

[patch 26/32] compat: skip data conversion in compat_sys_mount when data_page is NULL

pointer can be NULL, so we should skip data conversion in this case. Signed-off-by: Andrey Mirkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/compat.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion

[patch 05/32] EBTABLES: Deal with the worst-case behaviour in loop checks.

-off-by: Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c |4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.6.19.orig/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c +++ linux-2.6.19/net

[patch 16/32] IB/ucm: Fix deadlock in cleanup

, and ib_ucm_event_handler() needs file_mutex, too. Therefore, drop the file_mutex during the call to ib_destroy_cm_id(). Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Sean Hefty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Hello

[patch 23/32] NETLINK: Restore API compatibility of address and neighbour bits

PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/rtnetlink.h |2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- linux-2.6.19.orig/include/linux/rtnetlink.h +++ linux-2.6.19/include/linux/rtnetlink.h @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ #include linux/netlink.h #include linux/if_link.h +#include

[patch 19/32] XFRM: Use output device disable_xfrm for forwarded packets

. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit 9be2b4e36fb04bbc968693ef95a75acc17cf2931 Author: Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon Dec 4 19:59:00 2006 -0800 net/ipv4/route.c |2

[patch 15/32] softmac: fix unbalanced mutex_lock/unlock in ieee80211softmac_wx_set_mlme

-by: Larry Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- John and Chris, This error was introduced in the 2.6.19-rxX series and must be applied to 2.6.19-stable and wireless-2.6. Larry net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c |3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions

[patch 03/32] EBTABLES: Fix wraparounds in ebt_entries verification.

are at it, don't subtract unrelated pointers... Signed-off-by: Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c | 23 --- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions

[patch 06/32] EBTABLES: Prevent wraparounds in checks for entry components sizes.

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c | 17 + 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.19.orig/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c +++

[patch 28/32] autofs: fix error code path in autofs_fill_sb()

PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/autofs/inode.c |7 --- fs/autofs4/inode.c |7 --- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.19.orig/fs/autofs/inode.c +++ linux-2.6.19/fs/autofs/inode.c @@ -28,10 +28,11 @@ void autofs_kill_sb(struct

[patch 08/32] cryptoloop: Select CRYPTO_CBC

-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/block/Kconfig |1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- linux-2.6.19.orig/drivers/block/Kconfig +++ linux-2.6.19/drivers/block/Kconfig @@ -305,6 +305,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_LOOP config BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP tristate Cryptoloop Support

[patch 21/32] IPSEC: Fix inetpeer leak in ipv4 xfrm dst entries.

-by: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit 26db167702756d0022f8ea5f1f30cad3018cfe31 Author: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed Dec 6 23:45:15 2006 -0800 net/ipv4/xfrm4_policy.c |2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- linux

[patch 30/32] m32r: make userspace headers platform-independent

] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/m32r/kernel/entry.S | 65 ++ include/asm-m32r/ptrace.h | 28 ++ include/asm-m32r/sigcontext.h | 13 +--- 3 files changed, 35

[patch 10/32] PKT_SCHED act_gact: division by zero

-by: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- net/sched/act_gact.c |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.19.orig/net/sched/act_gact.c +++ linux-2.6.19/net/sched/act_gact.c @@ -48,14 +48,14 @@ static struct tcf_hashinfo

[patch 14/32] NETFILTER: bridge netfilter: deal with martians correctly

-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit bb01f827bae980efdecc33fbcdc1b90f1c355b3e tree 432a8f2843b47ccac094efea35da6f19731ed834 parent 14f5487cb9bd34cd59360d2cac7dccac9b27e8ce author Bart De Schuymer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:19:46 +0100 committer Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon

[patch 18/32] TOKENRING: Remote memory corruptor in ibmtr.c

of checksum in the packet. net/core/* will both read and modify the value as that offset, with obvious reasons. At the very least it's a remote memory corruptor. Signed-off-by: Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED

[patch 32/32] forcedeth: Disable INTx when enabling MSI in forcedeth

[EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- The general patch got into mainline last night, and this patch is clearly the same as that one, limited to the case of forcedeth (the pci_intx() calls are lifted from {enable,disable}_msi_mode to all of the indirect callers

[patch 13/32] NETFILTER: Fix iptables compat hook validation

translation code and moves them after mark_source_chains() call, where these marks are initialized. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Mishin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by; Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit 14f5487cb9bd34cd59360d2cac7dccac9b27e8ce tree

[patch 04/32] EBTABLES: Verify that ebt_entries have zero -distinguisher.

-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c | 10 +- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.19.orig/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c +++ linux-2.6.19/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c @@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ ebt_check_entry_size_and_hooks(struct

[patch 29/32] softirq: remove BUG_ONs which can incorrectly trigger

Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- kernel/softirq.c |2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.19.orig/kernel/softirq.c +++ linux-2.6.19/kernel/softirq.c @@ -574,8 +574,6

[patch 31/32] x86_64: fix boot hang due to nmi watchdog init code

this is a good candidate for 2.6.19 stable as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris

[patch 27/32] PM: Fix swsusp debug mode testproc

-by: Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- kernel/power/disk.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.6.19.orig/kernel/power/disk.c +++ linux-2.6.19/kernel/power

[patch 17/32] do_coredump() and not stopping rewrite attacks? (CVE-2006-6304)

current-fsuid = 0; /* Dump root private */ 1485 } And then filp_open follows with flag totally ignored. Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/exec.c |3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.6.19.orig/fs/exec.c +++ linux-2.6.19/fs/exec.c

[patch 25/32] drm-sis linkage fix

PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/char/drm/drm_sman.c |1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- linux-2.6.19.orig/drivers/char/drm/drm_sman.c +++ linux-2.6.19/drivers/char/drm/drm_sman.c

[patch 11/32] SUNHME: Fix for sunhme failures on x86

. It has been filed as bugzilla bug #7502 [0] and Debian bug #397460 [1]. [0] http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7502 [1] http://bugs.debian.org/397460 Signed-off-by: Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED

[patch 22/32] IrDA: Incorrect TTP header reservation

-off-by: Samuel Ortiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- net/irda/irttp.c |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.19.orig/net/irda/irttp.c +++ linux-2.6.19/net/irda/irttp.c

[patch 20/32] USB: Fix oops in PhidgetServo

-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/usb/misc/phidgetservo.c |1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- linux-2.6.19.orig/drivers/usb/misc/phidgetservo.c +++ linux-2.6.19/drivers/usb/misc/phidgetservo.c @@ -282,6 +282,7

Re: [stable] [patch 00/32] -stable review

And a roll-up is available at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/chrisw/stable/patch-2.6.19.1-rc1.{gz,bz2} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

[patch 33/32] NETLINK: Put {IFA,IFLA}_{RTA,PAYLOAD} macros back for userspace.

them in the kernel again, it's just for userspace. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit c0279128f20aa3580b0b43aaa49f351f6bad5f30 Author: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri Dec 8 17:05:13 2006 -0800 include/linux

Re: [stable] [patch 00/32] -stable review

* Chuck Ebbert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 16:38:10 -0800, Chris Wright wrote: And a roll-up is available at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/chrisw/stable/patch-2.6.19.1-rc1.{gz,bz2} Would it be possible

[patch 09/32] Revert ACPI: SCI interrupt source override

mode. If the SCI shared an interrupt line with another device, this would result in a irq 18: nobody cared type failure. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7601 Signed-off-by: Len Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c

Re: [patch 28/32] autofs: fix error code path in autofs_fill_sb()

* Ian Kent ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 15:58 -0800, Chris Wright wrote: plain text document attachment (autofs-fix-error-code-path-in-autofs_fill_sb.patch) -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- Stable review

Re: [patch 00/32] -stable review

* Stefan Lippers-Hollmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At least http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/chrisw/stable/patch-2.6.19.1-rc1.gz and http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/chrisw/stable/patch-2.6.19.1-rc2.gz seem to contain an incompletely applied [patch 24/32] add

Re: [PATCH] no paravirt for X86_VOYAGER or X86_VISWS

: warning: this is the location of the previous definition Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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

Re: [stable] [patch 31/32] x86_64: fix boot hang due to nmi watchdog init code

* Chris Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- replaced with upstream version, which is slightly changed by Andi. -- From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.6.19 stopped booting (or booted based

Linux 2.6.19.1

: bridge netfilter: deal with martians correctly Chris Wright (1): Linux 2.6.19.1 Daniel Barkalow (1): forcedeth: Disable INTx when enabling MSI in forcedeth David Miller (4): IPV6 NDISC: Calculate packet length correctly for allocation. PKT_SCHED act_gact: division by zero

Re: Linux 2.6.19.1

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index aef9625..6b53c75 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 6 SUBLEVEL = 19 -EXTRAVERSION = +EXTRAVERSION = .1 NAME=Avast! A bilge rat! # *DOCUMENTATION* diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/boot.c

Re: [PATCH 2/5] Paravirt cpu batching.patch

* Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The VMI ROM has a mode where hypercalls can be queued and batched. This turns out to be a significant win during context switch, but must be done at a specific point before side effects to CPU state are visible to subsequent instructions. This is

Re: [stable] [PATCH 46/61] fix Intel RNG detection

* dean gaudet ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: just for the public record (i already communicated with Jan in private mail on this one)... i have a box which hangs hard starting at 2.6.18.2 and 2.6.19 -- hangs hard during the intel hw rng tests (no sysrq response). and the hang occurs prior to

Re: [patch 00/24] -stable review

patch roll-up is available at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/chrisw/stable/patch-2.6.18.6-rc1.{gz,bz2} once mirroring has completed. thanks, -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

[patch 10/24] SUNHME: Fix for sunhme failures on x86

. It has been filed as bugzilla bug #7502 [0] and Debian bug #397460 [1]. [0] http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7502 [1] http://bugs.debian.org/397460 Signed-off-by: Jurij Smakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED

[patch 01/24] softmac: remove netif_tx_disable when scanning

] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_scan.c |2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.18.5.orig/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_scan.c +++ linux-2.6.18.5/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_scan.c @@ -47,7 +47,6

[patch 12/24] dm snapshot: fix freeing pending exception

() forgets to remove the corresponding exception from its exception table before freeing it. Already fixed in 2.6.19. Signed-off-by: Milan Broz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/md/dm-snap.c |1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- linux-2.6.18.5.orig

[patch 00/24] -stable review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.18.6 release. There are 24 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let us know. If anyone is a maintainer of the proper subsystem, and wants to add a

[patch 07/24] dm crypt: Fix data corruption with dm-crypt over RAID5

as successful reads to the higher layers (and leaving random content in the buffer cache). Already fixed in 2.6.19. Signed-off-by: Christophe Saout [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/md/dm-crypt.c |6 -- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions

[patch 15/24] bonding: incorrect bonding state reported via ioctl

PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.6.18.5.orig/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c +++ linux-2.6.18.5/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c @@ -3547,7 +3547,7 @@ static int bond_do_ioctl

[patch 22/24] m32r: make userspace headers platform-independent

PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/m32r/kernel/entry.S | 65 ++ include/asm-m32r/ptrace.h | 28 ++ include/asm-m32r/sigcontext.h | 13 +--- 3 files

[patch 13/24] IPSEC: Fix inetpeer leak in ipv4 xfrm dst entries.

-off-by: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit 26db167702756d0022f8ea5f1f30cad3018cfe31 Author: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed Dec 6 23:45:15 2006 -0800 net/ipv4/xfrm4_policy.c |2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- linux

[patch 19/24] ARM: Add sys_*at syscalls

2.6.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] Later glibc requires the *at syscalls. Add them. Signed-off-by: Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/arm

[patch 16/24] DVB: lgdt330x: fix signal / lock status detection bug

reporting this bug. Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/media/dvb/frontends/lgdt330x.c |6 -- 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.18.5.orig/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/lgdt330x.c +++ linux-2.6.18.5/drivers/media

[patch 02/24] EBTABLES: Fix wraparounds in ebt_entries verification.

are at it, don't subtract unrelated pointers... Signed-off-by: Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c | 23 --- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions

[patch 17/24] V4L: Fix broken TUNER_LG_NTSC_TAPE radio support

PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/media/video/tuner-simple.c |2 ++ drivers/media/video/tuner-types.c | 14 ++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions

[patch 24/24] Bluetooth: Add packet size checks for CAPI messages (CVE-2006-6106)

these kinds of remote attacks. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- net/bluetooth/cmtp/capi.c | 39 +-- 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.18.5.orig/net/bluetooth/cmtp/capi.c

[patch 03/24] EBTABLES: Verify that ebt_entries have zero -distinguisher.

-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c | 10 +- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.18.5.orig/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c +++ linux-2.6.18.5/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c @@ -439,7 +439,7

[patch 23/24] forcedeth: Disable INTx when enabling MSI in forcedeth

this one go into -stable. Legend has it that it is most correct to disable legacy interrupts before enabling MSI, but the mainline patch does it in the other order, and this patch is obviously the same as mainline. Signed-off-by: Daniel Barkalow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL

[patch 18/24] ieee1394: ohci1394: add PPC_PMAC platform code to driver probe

was unloaded and reloaded. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: also added missing if condition, commit 63cca59e89892497e95e1e9c7156d3345fb7e2e8] Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright

[patch 06/24] NET_SCHED: policer: restore compatibility with old iproute binaries

-by: Jamal Hadi Salim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- net/sched/act_police.c | 26 ++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.18.5.orig/net/sched/act_police.c

[patch 20/24] skip data conversion in compat_sys_mount when data_page is NULL

pointer can be NULL, so we should skip data conversion in this case. Signed-off-by: Andrey Mirkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/compat.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1

[patch 05/24] EBTABLES: Prevent wraparounds in checks for entry components sizes.

2.6.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c | 17 + 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) ---

[patch 04/24] EBTABLES: Deal with the worst-case behaviour in loop checks.

. Signed-off-by: Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c |4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.6.18.5.orig/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c +++ linux

[patch 08/24] NETFILTER: ip_tables: revision support for compat code

2.6.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit 79030ed07de673e8451a03aecb9ada9f4d75d491 tree 4ba8bd843c8bc95db0ea6877880b73d06da620e5 parent bec71b162747708d4b45b0cd399b484f52f2901a author

[patch 14/24] IrDA: Incorrect TTP header reservation

. Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- net/irda/irttp.c |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.18.5.orig/net/irda/irttp.c +++ linux-2.6.18.5/net/irda/irttp.c

[patch 11/24] XFRM: Use output device disable_xfrm for forwarded packets

. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit 9be2b4e36fb04bbc968693ef95a75acc17cf2931 Author: Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon Dec 4 19:59:00 2006 -0800 net/ipv4/route.c

[patch 21/24] softirq: remove BUG_ONs which can incorrectly trigger

: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- kernel/softirq.c |2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.18.5.orig/kernel/softirq.c +++ linux-2.6.18.5/kernel/softirq.c @@ -574,8

[patch 09/24] PKT_SCHED act_gact: division by zero

-off-by: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- net/sched/act_gact.c |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.18.5.orig/net/sched/act_gact.c +++ linux-2.6.18.5/net/sched/act_gact.c @@ -54,14 +54,14 @@ static

Linux 2.6.18.4

+- net/bridge/br_ioctl.c |9 + 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) Summary of changes from v2.6.18.3 to v2.6.18.4 Chris Wright: bridge: fix possible overflow in get_fdb_entries (CVE-2006-5751) Linux 2.6.18.4

Re: Linux 2.6.18.4

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 9eda185..d026088 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 6 SUBLEVEL = 18 -EXTRAVERSION = .3 +EXTRAVERSION = .4 NAME=Avast! A bilge rat! # *DOCUMENTATION* diff --git a/net/bridge/br_ioctl.c b/net/bridge/br_ioctl.c

[patch 07/23] NETFILTER: Honour source routing for LVS-NAT

is a precondition for the fix. Cc: Ken Brownfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Simon Horman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit

[patch 09/23] NETFILTER: xt_CONNSECMARK: fix Kconfig dependencies

-off-by: Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit 7f013c33ba2b02614c856d715b65d858bc1ec47f tree 7ba757cfe1e953e47726bdcf956c16d07d94aa6e parent ca6a237afa4910bab5e9e8ba0685f37c2bfe author Patrick

[patch 00/23] -stable review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.18.5 release. There are 23 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let us know. If anyone is a maintainer of the proper subsystem, and wants to add a

[patch 06/23] NETFILTER: arp_tables: missing unregistration on module unload

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit 6b22b99ecd431b63aece1fa5b1faa01b75a8302e tree 7969fd96d4daad6eaf8a10a0659702ca3e404439 parent 0ef4760e162ea44c847cca7393b36e5bcac5414e author Patrick

[patch 02/23] NETFILTER: Missing check for CAP_NET_ADMIN in iptables compat layer

capabilities. Signed-off-by: Björn Steinbrink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit 4410392a8258fd972fc08a336278b14c82b2774f tree

[patch 03/23] NETFILTER: ip_tables: compat error way cleanup

(). Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Dmitry Mishin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Kirill Korotaev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit

[patch 04/23] NETFILTER: ip_tables: fix module refcount leaks in compat error paths

PROTECTED] Acked-by: Kirill Korotaev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit 94a3d63f9ca6cb404f62ee4186d20fec3e8bdc97 tree 86873a5eff586598eceabdbe4c042c55f62d4fbc

[patch 05/23] NETFILTER: Missed and reordered checks in {arp,ip,ip6}_tables

PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit 1cfcb663c5a6d8b4b1172ff481af1b597bc8b54e tree 61c5b135ee292681f38945a3549cb9005aec1d7c parent b2ab160e1a3a1eb3fcc80132d8d7db5687a7a113 author Patrick McHardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:17:03 +0100 committer Patrick McHardy

[patch 12/23] pcmcia: fix rmmod pcmcia with unbound devices

-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/pcmcia/ds.c |5 + 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) --- linux-2.6.18.4.orig/drivers/pcmcia/ds.c +++ linux-2.6.18.4/drivers/pcmcia/ds.c @@ -1264,6 +1264,11 @@ static void pcmcia_bus_remove_socket(str socket-pcmcia_state.dead = 1

[patch 01/23] scsi: clear garbage after CDBs on SG_IO

[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- block/scsi_ioctl.c |3 +-- drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c |1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions

[patch 15/23] alpha: Fix ALPHA_EV56 dependencies typo

] Cc: Richard Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/alpha/Kconfig |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion

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