(Fwd) First snapshot of a proposed set of fixes to make 2.0.34

jhohertz@golden.net
Mon, 19 Jan 1998 18:58:36 -0500


Anyone tried this yet? Alan mentions our favourite platform. :) Gonna try to
build it tonight or tomorrow morning. Just wondering if anyone had any comments
re: this though.

Joe

--- Forwarded mail from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)

Date: Sun, 18 Jan 98 15:27 GMT
From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: First snapshot of a proposed set of fixes to make 2.0.34
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com

I'd appreciate feedback on these - especially on the Alpha platform so I can
fix any further
problems they may have caused someone and submit this on to Linus for 2.0.34

o sysctl oops
o ptrace oops
o signal oops
o i_count exploit
o autofw help text
o LDT memory leak
o Warning in cdrom.c
o Warning in eth16i.c
o Remove experimental tag fro DLCI/SDLA support
o SMC ultra32 module fix
o eql warning
o new_tunnel warning
o kerneld/ifconfig exploit
o ignore source quench and drive by the dropped frames (current "good
practice")

[Items marked "warning" indicate compiler warnings that turned out to be code
that is 'wrong' from
a perfect compiler correctness viewpoint but worked correctly before]

[Items marked "oops" fix non fatal Oops events]

[Items marked "exploit" fix something that allowed you to either crash the
machine as any user
or to get root]

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