Linux 2.6.9-ac13

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Dec 03 2004 - 13:57:15 EST

This -ac is a little different. It's still an experimental -ac to test the
accumulated patches it would be nice to have in -ac but which might break
something and seemed too risky. As such please test it but in general wait
for the next -ac before planning to update production systems.

Arjan van de Ven is now building RPMS of the kernel and those can be found
in the RPM subdirectory and should be yum-able. Expect the RPMS to lag the
diff a little as the RPM builds and tests do take time.

The it8212 still doesn't default to DMA on - that is on the TODO list. The
HPT366 rework project is also not ready (its gone back to the drawing
board until the current panic is over if you are a volunteer and wondered
what is up).

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/linux-2.6/2.6.9/

Key: o - only in -ac
* - already fixed upstream
X - discarded later as wrong
+ - ac specific (fix not relevant to non -ac)


2.6.9-ac13
o Use LBA28 if a drive does LBA48 but rejects (Alan Cox)
SET_MAX_EXT and friends (Maxtor 4R120L4 ..)
* Make sure md uses rdev_dec properly (Neil Brown)
* Remove bogus WARN from futex v signal (Rusty Russell)
* Fix via-rhine crash on resume (Randy Dunlap)
* Fix x86+64 IRQ loss bug on uniprocessor (Petr Vandrovec)
* Don't print undefined sibling data on em64t (Venkatesh Pallipadi)
* Further overlapping vma/exec fixes for 64bit (Zou Nan hai)
boxes
* Re-enable escaped ACPI debug (Len Brown)
* SELinux hook for ia32 emulation fd pass check (Mitchell Blank Jr)
* Fix DECnet oops in accept (Patrick Caulfield)
* Fix cciss oops with config tools (Andrew Patterson)
* io_edgeport oops fix (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
* Fix leak in bio_copy error path (Jens Axboe)
o Fix buffer sizes on ia32 emulation for x86_64 (Jeremy Fitzhardinge,
Chris Wright)
o Initial patch for ide_abort hang (Alan Cox)
o Fix serveral ide timing violations on reset (Alan Cox)
+ Fix dumb bug in ALi/ULi driver (Alan Cox)
+ Fix /proc/ide/*/capacity bug (Alan Cox)
o Support CSB6-R Serverworks raid (Alan Cox)
o Teach ide-cd to use sense data for file system (Alan Cox)
requests
- This means you get better diagonstics on CD errors
- It means a partial I/O failure will get you back the ok sectors
- It may fix the problem some users have with ISO copying and ide-cd

2.6.9-ac12
o Configurable 100/1Khz clock for x86 (James Bottomley)
| 100Hz is great for battery life
o Fixup subordinate bus plumbing for boxes like
the HP zv5000z (somewhat experimental)
+ Fix ACPI=n build (Chuck Ehbert)
* EDD boot options (Matt Domsch)
* Fix proc reporting of ppid (Dinakar Guniguntula)
| Backport c/o Ingo
o Improved smbfs fixes (Chuck Ebhert)
o Fix reset problems with older 3c59x/3c90x (John Linville)
o Fix oops if aic79xx is loaded with no hardware (Adam Manthei)
present
o Token ring locking fix
* Fix smc9192 (Russell King)
* Refcount scsi command queue properly (James Bottomley)
* Fix CD-ROM returns from new TUR code (James Bottomley)
* Fix scribble after close on Nvidia ethernet (Manfred Spraul)
* Fix queuecommand() behaviour for USB disk (Alan Stern)
after unplug
* Fix xtime adjustment error that could cause (Andrew Morton)
clock slew
* Fix IPv6 fragmentation problems (Herbert Xu)
* Fix mm ref leak in proc/cmdline (Prasanna Meda)
* Fix a tiny race in the timer code (Ben Herrenschmidt)
* Fix crash if security_load_policy fails (Jeff Mahoney)
* Fix scsi queue return error in ide-scsi (Jens Axboe)
and 3w-9xxx
* Avoid overflow in sg timeouts with large user (James Bottomley)
provided timeout
* Fix statm accounting (Hugh Dickins)
| Backported by Jason Baron
* Fix mlock v VM_IO hang (Hugh Dickins)
* Fix Intel i8x0 PCM audio with ALSA (Takashi Iwai)
* Fix further visor fix problems (Roger Luethi)
o New ATI IXP PCI identifier (Pascal Lengard)
o Fix URL for lanana (Alexander Stohr)
* Fix via_irqpic to not be __devinit (Andi Kleen)
* PPP multilink fixes (Paul Mackerras)
* Backport OSS emulation fixes (Marcel Sebek)

2.6.9-ac11
o Allow users to force it8212 out of raid mode (David Howells)
o On some platforms the flashing keylights (Alan Cox)
riggers bogus keyboard warnings. The error
appears from other stuff too like keyboard
switches so kill it
o Add support for ALi 5228 PATA IDE (Clear Zhang)
o Add support for newer ALi AGP (Clear Zhang)
* Seqpacket and SELinux fix (James Morris)
o Fix ide /proc and legacy devices problem (Alan Cox)

2.6.9-ac10
o Fix tiny ide-cd race (Alan Cox)
* Remove an apparently bogus IDE CD blacklist (Srihari Vijayaraghavan)
for a drive confirmed to work
o Correct vendor of some Cyrix chipsets in docs
* Error path locking fix for appletalk (Andries Brouwer)
* Remove a suspicious __initdata (Andries Brouwer)
* Further binfmt_elf work (Jakub Jelinek)
o SMBfs overflow fixes (Stefan Esser)
| Collated together by Juan Quintela
* Don't spew debug on bioses with ACPI (Len Brown)
breakpoints left in them.
* Further NFS disconnected dentry fix (Neil Brown)
* tmpfs inode accounting leak fix (Hugh Dickins)
* x86-64: Fix user triggerable oops on debugger (Andi Kleen)
vsyscall page access
* Serialize datagram read on AF_UNIX (Dave Miller)
* Disable PnP BIOS when using ACPI (Adam Belay)
* Fix oops in visor driver caused by DoS fixes (Roger Luethi)
o Fix several IDE drivers that assumed > 0 was (Alan Cox)
also an error return for pci probe functions
* Backport netlink updates/fixes from 10rc2 (Herbert Xu,
Dave Miller)
* Backport multihop routing oops fix (Christian Ehrhardt)
* Backport TSO fixes (Herbert Xu)

2.6.9-ac9
* Linus moved the remap_page_range flag fixes (Linus Torvalds)
into the function. Now this has had some
testing do the same in -ac and shrink the
diff a lot
* Fix low memory oops in device mapper (N Cunningham)
* Fix duplicate kfree in dm-target error path (Alasdair Kergon)
* Use a new bio on a md retry (Neil Brown)
+ Fix mediabay compile (Alan Cox)
* Increase EDD array size (Matt Domsch)
* Fix locking error/DoS in k15kusb105 (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
* Fix locking hang on error path of whiteheat (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
* Use sector_t for md (fixes some large raids) (Neil Brown)
* Fix further USB locking errors (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
* Report the right thing on a pnpbios fault (Andy Whitcroft)
* Add PCI quirk for VIA audio (David Shaohua Li)
* Fix neighbour table counter atomicity (Herbert Xu)
* Error out on early exec before rootfs (Chris Wright)
* Fix a.out crash with junk binary and (Chris Wright)
virtual memory limits disabled
* Import atomic_int_return for the neighbour fix (KaiKai Kohei)

2.6.9-ac8
* Fix binfmt_exec partial read problem (Chris Wright)
* Fix E820 overflow on x86-64 as per x86-32 (Andi Kleen)

2.6.9-ac7
o Redo the fixups in siimage/it8212 so they (Alan Cox)
always actually work
o Fix up both drives on an IT8212 raid (Alan Cox)
* Remove a debug printk/2 sec wait from CS5520 (Alan Cox)
* Move partial decode test to ide-cs/delkin only (Alan Cox)
* Fix partial decode test for no serial number (Alan Cox)
o Add support for disks on early rev IT821x (Alan Cox)
+ Allow ide-disk to be modular again (Tomas Szepe)
* Further fixup fixes (Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz)
* Apple Ipod-mini size reporting fix (Avi Kivity)
* Initial (non SMP) cdu31a driver rescue (Ondrej Zary)
o Allow READ_BUFFER_CAPACITY to SG_IO users (Daniel Drake)

2.6.9-ac6
+ Fix problem with -ac5 msdos changes (Vojtech Pavlik)

2.6.9-ac5
o Fix oops in and enable IT8212 driver (Alan Cox)
o Minor delkin driver fix (Mark Lord)
* Fix NFS mount hangs with long FQDN (Jan Kasprzak)
| I've used this version as its clearly correct for 2.6.9
| although it might not be the right future solution
o Fix overstrict FAT checks stopping reading of (Vojtech Pavlik)
some devices like Nokia phones
* Fix misdetection of some drives as MRW capable (Peter Osterlund)
* Fix promise 20267 hang with very long I/O's (Krzysztof Chmielewski)
* Fix a case where serial break was not sent for (Paul Fulghum)
the right time.
* Fix S/390 specific SACF hole (Martin Schwidefsky)
* NVidia ACPI timer override (Andi Kleen)
o Correct VIA PT880 PCI ident (and AGP ident) (Dave Jones)
* Fix EDID/E820 corruption (Venkatesh Pallipadi)
* Tighten security on TIOCCONS (od@xxxxxxx)
* Fix incorrect __init s that could cause crash (Randy Dunlap)

2.6.9-ac4
* Fix minor DoS bug in visor USB driver (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Delkin cardbus IDE support (Mark Lord)
+ Fix SMP hang with IDE unregister (Mark Lord)
* Fix proc file removal with IDE unregister (Mark Lord)
* Fix aic7xxx sleep with locks held and debug (Luben Tuikov)
spew
o First take at HPT372N problem fixing (Alan Cox)

2.6.9-ac3
* Fix syncppp/async ppp problems with new hangup (Paul Fulghum)
* Fix broken parport_pc unload (Andrea Arcangeli)
* Security fix for smbfs leak/overrun (Urban Widmark)
* Stop i8xx_tco making some boxes reboot on load (wim@iguana)
* Fix cpia/module tools deadlock (Peter Pregler)
+ Fix missing suid_dumpable export (Alan Cox)

2.6.9-ac2
+ Fix invalid kernel version stupidity (Adrian Bunk)
* Compiler ICE workaround/fixup (Linus Torvalds)
* Fix network DoS bug in 2.6.9 (Herbert Xu)
| Suggested by Sami Farin
o Flash lights on panic as in 2.4 (Andi Kleen)

2.6.9-ac1

Security Fixes
* Set VM_IO on areas that are temporarily (Alan Cox)
marked PageReserved (Serious bug)
o Lock ide-proc against driver unload (Alan Cox)
(very low severity)

Bug Fixes
o Working IDE locking (Alan Cox)
| And a great deal of review by Bartlomiej
o Handle E7xxx boxes with USB legacy flaws (Alan Cox)

Functionality
o Allow booting with "irqpoll" or "irqfixup" (Alan Cox)
on systems with broken IRQ tables.
o Support for setuid core dumping in some (Alan Cox)
environments (off by default)
* Support for drives that don't report geometry
o IT8212 support (raid and passthrough) (Alan Cox)
o Allow IDE to grab all unknown generic IDE (Alan Cox)
devices (boot with "all-generic-ide")
o Restore PWC driver (Luc Saillard)

Other
o Small pending tty clean-up to moxa (Alan Cox)
o Put VIA Velocity (tm) adapters under gigabit (VIA)

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