Linux 2.6.23.15

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Feb 08 2008 - 15:35:23 EST


We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.23.15
kernel.

It contains a number of bugfixes all over the place, and all users of
the 2.6.23 series are encouraged to upgrade.

I'll also be replying to this message with a copy of the patch between
2.6.23.14 and 2.6.23.15

The updated 2.6.23.y git tree can be found at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.23.y.git
and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.23.y.git;a=summary

thanks,

greg k-h

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Makefile | 2
arch/i386/kernel/apm.c | 10
arch/ia64/kernel/unaligned.c | 11
arch/sparc64/kernel/chmc.c | 16
arch/sparc64/kernel/entry.S | 12
arch/sparc64/kernel/pci.c | 16
arch/sparc64/kernel/smp.c | 19
arch/sparc64/mm/init.c | 29 -
drivers/acpi/blacklist.c | 388 +++++++++++++++++++
drivers/acpi/bus.c | 7
drivers/acpi/dispatcher/dsobject.c | 91 ++++
drivers/acpi/events/evregion.c | 8
drivers/acpi/osl.c | 173 ++++++--
drivers/acpi/pci_irq.c | 9
drivers/acpi/video.c | 4
drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 52 +-
drivers/ata/sata_promise.c | 87 ++++
drivers/atm/nicstar.c | 19
drivers/char/apm-emulation.c | 15
drivers/char/drm/drm_vm.c | 2
drivers/char/mspec.c | 2
drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c | 2
drivers/connector/cn_queue.c | 2
drivers/crypto/padlock-aes.c | 53 ++
drivers/firmware/dmi-id.c | 2
drivers/input/evdev.c | 716 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------
drivers/input/input.c | 666 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
drivers/input/joydev.c | 746 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
drivers/input/mousedev.c | 743 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
drivers/input/tsdev.c | 391 +++++++++++++------
drivers/isdn/capi/capidrv.c | 9
drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 31 -
drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c | 10
drivers/md/dm-table.c | 7
drivers/md/dm.c | 24 -
drivers/md/dm.h | 5
drivers/md/raid5.c | 6
drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.c | 4
drivers/net/atl1/atl1_main.c | 8
drivers/net/cassini.c | 45 --
drivers/net/cassini.h | 18
drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c | 66 ++-
drivers/net/chelsio/pm3393.c | 112 ++---
drivers/net/chelsio/sge.c | 40 -
drivers/net/chelsio/sge.h | 3
drivers/net/forcedeth.c | 16
drivers/net/sky2.c | 15
drivers/net/usb/kaweth.c | 2
drivers/net/usb/mcs7830.c | 4
drivers/pci/hotplug/fakephp.c | 39 +
drivers/pci/quirks.c | 6
drivers/spi/omap2_mcspi.c | 6
drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c | 4
fs/cifs/inode.c | 1
fs/exec.c | 6
fs/ncpfs/mmap.c | 4
fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c | 5
fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c | 5
fs/splice.c | 8
include/asm-m68k/Kbuild | 1
include/asm-powerpc/systbl.h | 2
include/asm-sparc64/dma-mapping.h | 12
include/asm-sparc64/hypervisor.h | 4
include/asm-sparc64/pci.h | 4
include/linux/acpi.h | 7
include/linux/dmi.h | 2
include/linux/freezer.h | 23 +
include/linux/input.h | 112 +++++
include/linux/pci_ids.h | 2
include/linux/pm.h | 9
include/linux/pm_legacy.h | 6
include/linux/quicklist.h | 8
kernel/kmod.c | 13
kernel/power/main.c | 3
kernel/power/pm.c | 4
kernel/relay.c | 1
kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c | 56 +-
mm/mmap.c | 14
mm/quicklist.c | 12
mm/truncate.c | 4
net/8021q/vlan.c | 2
net/atm/mpc.c | 7
net/ax25/ax25_in.c | 2
net/bridge/br_netfilter.c | 45 +-
net/ipv4/devinet.c | 2
net/ipv4/ip_gre.c | 2
net/ipv4/raw.c | 4
net/ipv4/route.c | 8
net/irda/af_irda.c | 2
net/key/af_key.c | 14
net/netrom/nr_dev.c | 2
net/x25/x25_forward.c | 5
net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c | 9
sound/oss/via82cxxx_audio.c | 14
sound/usb/usx2y/usX2Yhwdep.c | 2
sound/usb/usx2y/usx2yhwdeppcm.c | 2
96 files changed, 3689 insertions(+), 1534 deletions(-)

Summary of changes from v2.6.23.14 to v2.6.23.15
================================================

Al Viro (1):
CASSINI: Fix endianness bug.

Alan Cox (1):
ACPI: Not register gsi for PCI IDE controller in legacy mode

Ayaz Abdulla (1):
forcedeth: mac address mcp77/79

Björn Steinbrink (1):
Fix dirty page accounting leak with ext3 data=journal

Bob Moore (2):
ACPICA: fix acpi-cpufreq boot crash due to _PSD return-by-reference
ACPICA: fix acpi_serialize hang regression

Chas Williams (1):
ATM: [nicstar] delay irq setup until card is configured

Christoph Lameter (2):
quicklists: do not release off node pages early
quicklists: Only consider memory that can be used with GFP_KERNEL

Cory T. Tusar (1):
tty: fix logic change introduced by wait_event_interruptible_timeout()

Dan Williams (1):
md: fix data corruption when a degraded raid5 array is reshaped

David Miller (8):
SPARC64: Fix sparc64 cpu cross call hangs.
SPARC64: Fix memory controller register access when non-SMP.
SPARC64: Fix two kernel linear mapping setup bugs.
NET: Correct two mistaken skb_reset_mac_header() conversions.
CASSINI: Revert 'dont touch page_count'.
CASSINI: Set skb->truesize properly on receive packets.
SPARC64: Fix OOPS in dma_sync_*_for_device()
SPARC64: Implement pci_resource_to_user()

Divy Le Ray (3):
chelsio: Fix skb->dev setting
cxgb: fix T2 GSO
cxgb: fix stats

Dmitry Torokhov (5):
Input: implement proper locking in input core
Input: evdev - implement proper locking
Input: mousedev - implement proper locking
Input: joydev - implement proper locking
Input: tsdev - implement proper locking

Eric Dumazet (1):
IPV4 ROUTE: ip_rt_dump() is unecessary slow

Eric Paris (2):
VM/Security: add security hook to do_brk (CVE-2007-6434)
security: protect from stack expantion into low vm addresses

Greg Kroah-Hartman (2):
USB: update sierra.c with latest device ids that are in 2.6.24-rc7
Linux 2.6.23.15

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (1):
ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: fix lenovo keymap for brightness

Herbert Xu (5):
IPSEC: Fix potential dst leak in xfrm_lookup
IPV4 raw: Strengthen check on validity of iph->ihl
ATM: Check IP header validity in mpc_send_packet
IPSEC: Avoid undefined shift operation when testing algorithm ID
CRYPTO: padlock: Fix spurious ECB page fault

Ian Abbott (1):
PCI: Fix fakephp deadlock

Ingo Molnar (1):
vfs: coredumping fix (CVE-2007-6206)

Jay Cliburn (1):
atl1: fix frame length bug

Jens Axboe (1):
splice: missing user pointer access verification (CVE-2008-0009/10)

Julia Lawall (1):
X25: Add missing x25_neigh_put

Jun'ichi Nomura (1):
dm: table detect io beyond device

Kalle Valo (1):
spi: omap2_mcspi PIO RX fix

Karsten Keil (1):
fix oops on rmmod capidrv

Len Brown (2):
PM: ACPI and APM must not be enabled at the same time
ACPI: sync blacklist w/ latest

Li Zefan (1):
CONNECTOR: Don't touch queue dev after decrement of ref count.

Mark McLoughlin (1):
INET: Fix netdev renaming and inet address labels

Matthew Wilcox (1):
m68k: Export cachectl.h

Mikael Pettersson (1):
sata_promise: ASIC PRD table bug workaround

Milan Broz (2):
dm crypt: fix write endio
dm crypt: use bio_add_page

NeilBrown (1):
knfsd: Allow NFSv2/3 WRITE calls to succeed when krb5i etc is used.

Nick Piggin (1):
vm audit: add VM_DONTEXPAND to mmap for drivers that need it (CVE-2008-0007)

Nigel Cunningham (1):
Fix unbalanced helper_lock in kernel/kmod.c

Oliver Neukum (1):
Input: fix open count handling in input interfaces

Patrick Mansfield (1):
POWERPC: Change fallocate to match unistd.h on powerpc

Patrick McHardy (2):
Netfilter: bridge: fix double POST_ROUTING invocation
Netfilter: bridge-netfilter: fix net_device refcnt leaks

Pavel Emelyanov (1):
VLAN: Lost rtnl_unlock() in vlan_ioctl()

Rafael J. Wysocki (1):
Freezer: Fix APM emulation breakage

Russ Dill (2):
NET: mcs7830 passes msecs instead of jiffies to usb_control_msg
NET: kaweth was forgotten in msec switchover of usb_start_wait_urb

Stephen Hemminger (2):
sky2: disable rx checksum on Yukon XL
sky2: RX lockup fix

Steve French (1):
CIFS: Respect umask when using POSIX mkdir

Tejun Heo (1):
libata: port and host should be stopped before hardware resources are released

Thomas Gleixner (1):
clockevents: fix reprogramming decision in oneshot broadcast

Timo Teras (1):
IPV4: ip_gre: set mac_header correctly in receive path

Tony Luck (1):
ia64: Fix unaligned handler for floating point instructions with base update

William Lee Irwin III (1):
ACPI: video_device_list corruption

Zhao Yakui (1):
ACPI: apply quirk_ich6_lpc_acpi to more ICH8 and ICH9

maximilian attems (1):
IRDA: irda_create() nuke user triggable printk

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