Summary of changes from v2.4.29-rc3 to v2.4.29-rc4 ============================================ Marcelo Tosatti: o Cset exclude: solar@openwall.com|ChangeSet|20041218011100|24870 o Changed VERSION to 2.4.29-rc4 o Update i386 defconfig Summary of changes from v2.4.29-rc2 to v2.4.29-rc3 ============================================ : o [NEIGH]: Calculate hash_val after possible table growth, not before : o Fix net neighbour hash bug David S. Miller: o [TG3]: Return 0 when PHY read times out, not all-ones o [TG3]: Fix signedness issues in PHY read/write loops o [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate o [INET_ECN]: Add INET_ECN_* enumeration from 2.6.x Hideaki Yoshifuji: o [IPV6]: Fix tunnel list locking in sit.c Jamal Hadi Salim: o [NET]: Add ETH_P_MPLS_* and ARPHRD_INFINIBAND defines from 2.6.x Marcelo Tosatti: o Adrian/Arjan/Marcelo: change tty_wakeup/tty_ldisc_flush to non-GPL export for compat reasons and change requirement to modutils 2.4.10 o Changed VERSION to 2.4.29-rc3 Olaf Kirch: o [NET]: Fix CMSG32_OK macros Patrick McHardy: o [NETFILTER]: Associate locally generated ICMP errors with conntrack of original packet o [NETFILTER]: Remove CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_LOCAL config option o [NETFILTER]: Save a level of indentation in icmp_reply_translation o [NETFILTER]: Apply PRE_ROUTING manips in LOCAL_OUT for locally generated icmp errors o [NETFILTER]: Verify NAT manips have been applied before reversing them in icmp_reply_translation o [NETFILTER]: Release dst_entry in PRE_ROUTING after NAT o [NETFILTER]: Fix stack leakage in iptables/ip6_tables Phil Oester: o [NETFILTER]: revert MASQUERADE optimization for mostly static IPs Sridhar Samudrala: o [SCTP] Fix potential null pointer dereference in sctp_err_lookup() o [SCTP] Code cleanup: remove unused code and make needlessly global code static o [SCTP] Treat ICMP protocol unreachable errors from non-SCTP capable hosts as ABORTs. o [SCTP] Validate and respond to invalid chunk/parameter lengths o [SCTP] Implementation of SCTP Implementer's Guide Section 2.35 o [SCTP] Clean up the T3_rtx timer when deleting a transport o [SCTP] Fix bug in setting ephemeral port in the bind address o [SCTP] Fix misc. issues in SCTP_PEER_ADDR_PARAMS set socket option o [SCTP] Remove sk_xxx macros to be consistent with the rest of networking code and to avoid backporting issues. o [SCTP] Fix sctp_getladdrs() to return valid local addresses on an endpoint that is bound to INADDR_ANY or inaddr6_any. Thomas Graf: o [PKT_SCHED]: dsmark should ignore ECN bits Wensong Zhang: o [IPVS]: change to run master/backup sync daemon at a time Yasuyuki Kozakai: o [NETFILTER]: Backport fixes for ip6t_LOG o [NETFILTER]: Backport fixes for ip6t_dst o [NETFILTER]: Fix check for ESP header size in ip6t_esp o [NETFILTER]: Backport fixes for ip6t_eui64 o [NETFILTER]: Backport fixes for ip6t_frag o [NETFILTER]: Backport fixes for ip6t_hbh o [NETFILTER]: Backport fixes for ip6t_ipv6header o [NETFILTER]: Backport fixes for ip6t_multiport o [NETFILTER]: Backport fixes for ip6t_rt o [NETFILTER]: Backport fixes for ip6tables Summary of changes from v2.4.29-rc1 to v2.4.29-rc2 ============================================ Christoph Hellwig: o [XFS] make sure to always reclaim inodes in xfs_finish_reclaim o [XFS] Fix NFS inode data corruption o [XFS] Disable variable sized transfers on loop devices o [XFS] Fix compilations for parisc Geert Uytterhoeven: o Kill unused variables in the tty code o Kill unused variables in the net code Jan Harkes: o Fix Coda bugs found by Coverity checker Marcelo Tosatti: o Update Dave Jones email address in MAINTAINERS file o Linus Torvalds: Warn if mmap_sem is not locked in do_brk o Change do_uselib() fix to match v2.6, rip do_brk_locked() o Brad Spengler: Fix random poolsize sysctl (from 2.6.10-ac) o Alan Cox: Fix moxa serial bound checking issue (from 2.6.10-ac) o Brad Spengler: Fix RLIMIT_MEMLOCK issue o get_user_pages: Change BUG_ON to WARN_ON o Alan Cox: rose_rt_ioctl lack of bounds checking, reported by Coverity (from 2.6.10-ac) o Alan Cox: sdla_xfer lack of bounds checking, reported by Coverity (from 2.6.10-ac) o Makefile o Revert dubious get_user_pages() bug checking o Olaf Kirch: sendmsg compat wrapper fixes o Cset exclude: marcelo@logos.cnet|ChangeSet|20050110190211|08215 o Fix expand_stack() SMP race o Add missing Documentation/tty.txt from tty/ldisc locking updates o Completly remove old do_brk() fix o Linus Torvalds: Create helper for mmap_sem write-lock check in do_brk() o Fix mmap.c typo Mikael Pettersson: o sungem UniNorth 2 GMAC support Nathan Scott: o [XFS] Add sanity checks before use of attr_multi opcount parameter Pete Zaitcev: o EHCI race fix Summary of changes from v2.4.29-pre3 to v2.4.29-rc1 ============================================ : o drivers/net/appletalk/Config.in depends on CONFIG_ATALK : o [libata] use PIO mode for request sense o [libata] PIO error handling improvement o [libata] verify ATAPI DMA for a given request is OK : o 8139cp: support for TTTech MC322 : o SATA support for Intel ICH7 : o 32 bit ltrace oops when tracing 64 bit executable [X86_64] : o Computone driver update : o 8390 Tx fix for non i386 : o [libata] add #include (fixes 2.4 alpha build) Don Fry: o pcnet32: added pci_disable_device Ganesh Venkatesan: o e1000: ITR does not default correctly on 2.4.x kernels o e1000: Fix for kernel panic when the interface is brought down while the NAPI enabled driver is under stress o e1000: Fix ethtool diagnostics -- specifically for blade server implementations o e1000: Enabling NETIF_F_SG without checksum offload is illegal o e1000: remove a redundant assignment to a local nr_frags in e1000_xmit_frame o e1000: Synchronizing multicast table setup with transmit path - ak@suse.de o e1000: fix tx resource cleanup logic o e1000: {set, get}_wol is now symmetric for 82545EM adapters o e1000: Sparse cleanup - shemminger@osdl.org o e1000: Added workaround to prevent inadvertent gigabit waveform to be sent out on the wire due to init-time operations on the IGP phy. o e1000: Applied eeprom fix where it was possible to read/write o e1000: Applied smart speed fix where the code was forcing smart speed on all the time. Now it will honor the setting defined in the eeprom. o e1000: Driver version number, white spaces, comments, device id & other changes o e1000: Documentation/networking/e1000.txt update Ian Kent: o autofs4 add missing compat ioctls Jean Delvare: o I2C: Cleanup a couple media/video drivers Jeff Garzik: o [libata sata_nv] fix dev detect by removing sata-reset flag o [libata sata_uli] add 5281 support, fix SATA phy setup for others Marcelo Tosatti: o Changed VERSION to 2.4.29-rc1 o Paul Starzetz: sys_uselib() race vulnerability (CAN-2004-1235) Margit Schubert-While: o prism54 sync with 2.6 o prism54 fix resume processing o prism54 sparse fixes Paul Mackerras: o PPC64 signal code cleanup Pete Zaitcev: o USB: Add user defined IDs to ftdi Ralf Bächle: o MIPS network drivers o NE2000 on Toshiba RBTX4927 fixes Solar Designer: o Check for zero program header on load_elf_interp() Summary of changes from v2.4.29-pre2 to v2.4.29-pre3 ============================================ : o Remove msleep() definitions from sx8.c and forcedeth.c: it is generic now Andi Kleen: o x86_64: fix signal restart bug o [CAN-2004-1144] Fix int 0x80 hole in 2.4 x86-64 linux kernels Andries E. Brouwer: o do not use CONFIG_BLK_STATS Chris Wright: o a.out: error check on set_brk o Backport of 2.6 fix to insert_vm_struct to make it return an error rather than BUG() David S. Miller: o [SPARC]: Adjust 32-bit ELF_ET_DYN_BASE Geert Uytterhoeven: o m68k: fix incorrect config comment in check_bugs() H. J. Lu: o backport v2.6: Fix pty race condition Ian Abbott: o serial closing_wait and close_delay used from wrong data structure Marcelo Tosatti: o Solar Designer: Fix do_follow_link() comment o Jason Baron: Backport v2.6 tty/ldisc locking fixes o Move msleep() from libata-compat.h to generic headers o Cset exclude: akpm@osdl.org|ChangeSet|20041218001750|00972 o Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre3 o Cset exclude: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no|ChangeSet|20040521160141|29598 o Fix NFS hang on unlink problems: cset exclude: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no|ChangeSet|20041110174036|20706 Simon Horman: o binfmt_elf force_sig arguments fix Solar Designer: o Fix booting off USB CD-ROMs (do_mounts.c) o binfmt_elf fix return error codes and early corrupt binary detection o procfs enhanced error reporting o sysctl: block bogus argument earlier o stronger (paranoic) mremap argument checking Stephen Hemminger: o [TCP]: Missing newline character in printk o [PKT_SCHED]: netem: restart device after inserting packets Thomas Graf: o [PKT_SCHED]: Fix double locking in tcindex destroy path Summary of changes from v2.4.29-pre1 to v2.4.29-pre2 ============================================ : o Correct /dev/mptctl major number in Configure.help : o [SPARC64]: Add SMB_IOC_GETMOUNTUID32 to compat ioctl table : o VM documentation fix: vm_anon_lru default is 0 Adrian Bunk: o remove bouncing email address of Deanna Bonds o add missing SCSI_SATA_AHCI Configure.help entry o USB_ETH{,_RNDIS} EXPERIMENTAL dependencies o let SCSI_SATA_NV depend on EXPERIMENTAL o Update email address of Philip Blundell o update email address of Andrea Arcangeli Cal Peake: o remove obsolete PIIX config help Chris Wright: o proc_tty.c warning fix o [IPV4/IPV6]: IGMP source filter fixes Christoph Hellwig: o [XFS] handle nfs requesting ino 0 gracefully o [XFS] fix handling of bad inodes o [XFS] remove useless S_ISREG check in ->mmap and ->mprotect o [XFS] split pagebuf_get, use get/read_flags correctly o [XFS] Fix declaration of _pagebuf_find to not be static o [XFS] handle inode creation race o [XFS] call the right function in pagebuf_readahead David Brownell: o usb gadget updates: core o usb gadget updates: ether/rndis o usb gadget updates: Minor update to handle more hardware David S. Miller: o [SPARC64]: Update defconfig o [SPARC64]: Fix SMP cpu bringup bug when bigkernel o [IPV4]: Do not leak IP options o [NET]: CMSG compat code needs signedness fixes too Dean Roehrich: o [XFS] Need to vn_revalidate after dm_set_fileattr o [XFS] update a copyright notice Douglas Gilbert: o off-by-1 libata-scsi INQUIRY VPD pages 0x80 and 0x83 Eric Sandeen: o [XFS] Wait for all async buffers to complete before tearing down the filesystem at umount time Geoffrey Wehrman: o [XFS] Add xfs_rotorstep sysctl for controlling placement of extents for new files by the inode32 allocator. Herbert Xu: o [NET]: Fix CMSG validation checks wrt. signedness Ingo Molnar: o floppy boot-time detection fix Jakub Bogusz: o don't recursively crash in die() on CHRP/PReP machines Jeff Garzik: o [libata docs] add chapter on libata driver API o [libata] only DMA map data for DMA commands (fix >=4GB bug) Jon Krueger: o [XFS] Allow the option of skipping quotacheck processing Len Brown: o [ACPI] acpi=off must disable acpi_early_init() Luca Tettamanti: o radeonfb: don't try to ioreamp the entire VRAM o Add new PCI id to radeonfb Marcelo Tosatti: o Cset exclude: vince@arm.linux.org.uk|ChangeSet|20041125151649|65331 o backport v2.6 fork/thread file descriptor race fix o p8022 unregister packet type on unload o Make sure VC resizing fits in s16 o psnap correctly unregister on module exit o Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre2 Nathan Scott: o [XFS] Fix incorrect use of do_div on realtime device growfs code path o [XFS] Fix some locking oddities in extended attributes code (ilock excl vs shared). o [XFS] Convert to list_for_each_entry_safe form in reclaim list walk o [XFS] Ensure bytes read statistic is not updated when the generic routines fail. o [XFS] Add nosymlinks inode flag for the security folks, reserve projinherit flag. o [XFS] Update XFS quota header - add macros, use standard gpl template o [XFS] Make xfssyncd more generic, hand off out-of-space flushing to it; fixes two deadlocks when near-full and fixes a 4KSTACKS problem in XFS. o [XFS] Remove crufty old cap/mac code - never used, never compiled, gone o [XFS] Fix merge botch affecting xfs_setattr for realtime files o [XFS] Simplify page probe/submit code so buffers bayond eof not dirtied/written. o [XFS] Remove unused function prototypes Randy Dunlap: o Fix unresolved symbol on x86-64: export swiotlb Solar Designer: o [TCP]: Missing KERN_* in input path printks Stephen Hemminger: o [UDP]: Select handling of bad checksums Timothy Shimmin: o [XFS] xfs reservation issues with xlog_sync roundoff Wensong Zhang: o [IPVS] add a sysctl variable to expire quiescent template Summary of changes from v2.4.28 to v2.4.29-pre1 ============================================ : o via82cxxx audio procfs code selection fix : o dl2k: correct author's email : o [VLAN]: change_mtu should return 0 on success : o [DECNET]: dn_neigh.c needs linux/module.h o [ATM]: Force -n option in gzip invocation o Tigran Aivazian: backport sigmatch() issue in microcode.c : o Mike Jagdis CREDITS email address change : o vga16fb: Fix frame buffer bad memory mapping Adrian Bunk: o remove outdated Stallion contact information Andrea Arcangeli: o Lazily add anonymous pages to LRU Andries E. Brouwer: o backport v2.6 largefile isofs fix Barry K. Nathan: o Fix ELF exec with huge bss o binfmt_elf.c fix for 32-bit apps with large bss Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz: o REQUEST_SENSE support for ATAPI o [libata] arbitrary size ATAPI PIO support o arbitrary size ATAPI PIO support bugfixes o make ATAPI PIO work o libata PIO bugfix Chris Wright: o /proc/tty/driver/serial reveals the exact number of characters used in serial links (CAN-2003-0461) Christoph Hellwig: o fix sata_svw compile Dave Kleikamp: o JFS: Fix extent overflow bugs o JFS: avoid assert in lbmfree o JFS: Fix endian errors o JFS: fix race in jfs_commit_inode David S. Miller: o [TCP]: Receive buffer moderation fixes o [NETLINK]: sed 's/->sk_/->//' in af_netlink.c Ganesh Venkatesan: o e1000: Update Documentation/networking/e1000.txt o e1000: fix set_pauseparam for fiber serdes link o e1000: remove unused function e1000_enable_mng_pass_thru o e1000: fix set ringparam for ethtool returning error o e1000: driver version update o e1000: white space corrections o e100: Update to Configure.help o e1000: Update to Configure.help Herbert Xu: o [NETLINK]: Backport pid hashing changes from 2.6 o [NETLINK]: Invoke netlink_proto_init() correctly in non-modular case Jan Kara: o Configurable quota messages Jean Delvare: o I2C updates for 2.4.28 (1/5) o I2C updates: i2c proc parser fix o I2C updates: hardcoded buffer size should depend on define o I2C updates: lack trailing newline in logs o I2C updates: get rid of unused code Jeff Garzik: o [netdrvr dl2k] new TX scheme, fix minor bug o [netdrvr dl2k] remove unused constant 'CFI' o [libata] add AHCI driver o [libata] fix minor 2.6 backport problems o [libata] return ENOTTY rather than EOPNOTSUPP for unknown-ioctl o [libata] use kunmap_atomic() correctly o [libata] cosmetic: make syncing with 2.6 easier o [libata] add ssleep() function o [libata ahci] bump version to 1.00 o Add nth_page() helper o Resync linux/ata.h with 2.6.x o Remove silly comment from linux/ata.h o [libata] remove dependence on PCI (2.4 stub version) o [libata] bump versions, add MODULE_VERSION() tags o [libata] fix DocBook bugs o [libata ahci] minor fixes Jeremy Higdon: o per-port LED control for sata_vsc John W. Linville: o 3c59x: resync with 2.6 Len Brown: o [ACPI] BIOS workaround allowing devices to use reserved IO ports Author: David Shaohua Li http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3049 Manfred Spraul: o Backport of the 0.30 forcedeth driver to 2.4. It's a new backport, starting from the 2.6 tree. Marcelo Tosatti: o O.Sezer: cpqphp_pci.c size warning fix o Cset exclude: m.c.p@kernel.linux-systeme.com|ChangeSet|20041122173550|59288 o Marc-Christian Petersen: VM documentation update o Ignore vma's with PageReserved pages at get_user_pages() o Andrea: get_user_pages handle ZERO_PAGE PG_reserved page, BUG otherwise o Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre1 o fix get_user_pages() change typo Mark Lord: o Export ata_scsi_simulate() for use by non-libata drivers Matthijs Melchior: o [libata ahci] fix rather serious (and/or embarassing) bugs Meelis Roos: o ata.h undefined types in USB Mikael Pettersson: o gcc34 fastcall mismatch fixes for rwsem-spinlock Mike Kravetz: o Task name handling static copy v2.6 backport Nishanth Aravamudan: o scsi/ahci: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep()/ssleep() Pete Zaitcev: o USB: fix ohci_complete_add o USB: ohci fix by Jes&Pete for Jessie Ralf Bächle: o MIPS update o MIPS: sound drivers for AMD Alchemy platforms o MIPS: Configure.help updates o MIPS: MAINTAINERS update o MIPS documentation Randy Dunlap: o oops on boot when initializing CDROM Solar Designer: o Fix SCSI tape driver return code o Fix 32-bit syscall emulation waste of CPU resources Tobias Lorenz: o [libata sata_promise] s/sata/ata/ Tony Battersby: o sym53c8xx_2 error handler fix o sym53c8xx_2 sniff inquiry fix o sym53c8xx_2 Ultra 160 requires LVD o make SCSI error handler preserve data transfer residual o fix for scsi_unjam_host: Miscount of number of failed commands o fix race condition in sg.c Özkan Sezer: o ricoh.h, mem0 wrong definition v2.6 backport o Wilfried Weissmann: hptraid v0.03 from -ac/redhat - minor fixes o DAC960 firmware/alpha backport from 2.6 o Cure ISDN eicon size warning o OPTI Viper-M/N+ chipset support (by Michael Mueller) o hamradio scc warning type fix o intermezzo, backport some fixes from 2.6 o intermezzo, backport some more fixes from 2.6 o intermezzo, fixes from cvs o Mark InterMezzo as orphan o ide-scsi update from ac/rh: Added transform for reading ATAPI tape drive block limits