[Lucid][pull request] Update to 2.6.32.14/15 Stable Kernel

Wed Jun 2 20:31:14 UTC 2010

On 06/02/2010 10:36 AM, Stefan Bader wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/588832
>
> The 2.6.32.14 stable kernel has recently been released.
>
> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.14
> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.32.14.bz2
>
> The 2.6.32.14 upstream stable kernel brings in 36 patches (DRM excluded).
> As we carry the DRM stack from 2.6.33, all patches that affect DRM have been
> dropped and replaced by DRM patches from 2.6.33.5 (3 patches).]
>
> The upstream process for stable tree updates is quite similar in scope to the
> Ubuntu SRU process. e.g: each patch demonstrably fixes a bug and is vetted by
> upstream either by originating directly from Linus' tree or by being minimally
> backported from some patch in Linus' tree.
>
> Upstream also released 2.6.32.15 and as this only reverts two more patches we
> did not take in the first place will be claimed to be included in this update.
>
> TEST CASE: TBD
>
> The following patch was already carried and is replaced by the version from stable:
>   * drm/i915: Disable FBC on 915GM and 945GM.
>
> I am attaching the review and I have pushed a preview tree to
>
> git://kernel.ubuntu.com/smb/ubuntu-lucid.git stable14
>
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=smb/ubuntu-lucid.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/stable14
>
>
ACK

These all look good to me. Small and contained. There isn't anything here
that makes any large changes to anything.

Details:
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commit 1cd8211f07663ebeac04b19ac849de7ed5eef969
Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at suse.de>

     Revert "module: fix __module_ref_addr()"

# Type: Revert
The patch this reverts, is not correct for 2.6.32-stable. Looks good.

commit 5f4213d39b4965791875f6e10f6f7268ba8dfc2c
Author: Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no>

     ipv4: udp: fix short packet and bad checksum logging

# Type: Bug fix
Move the initiazation of two variables. Looks good.

commit 7b7be5f379bd001c86372c2e042cb7779c4f0a06
Author: Oliver Neukum <oneukum at suse.de>

     hp_accel: fix race in device removal

# Type: Bug fix
Moved call to flush_work after led_classdev_unregister to fix race condition. Looks good.

commit ec9dd41fc73ca85b0afb21ce4bbf563afeb08d6d
Author: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich at analog.com>

     fbdev: bfin-t350mcqb-fb: fix fbmem allocation with blanking lines

# Type: Bug fix
Take video memory offset into account when allocating dma buffer. Looks good.

commit 38f2212686db52d61ed5d86fd6c69ae5f65d6449
Author: Mel Gorman <mel at csn.ul.ie>

     hugetlbfs: kill applications that use MAP_NORESERVE with SIGBUS instead of OOM-killer

# Type: Bug fix
Kill applications with the correct signal. Looks good.

commit c7c781e8307febc10ce5f25adad79d8d4f65104e
Author: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori at lab.ntt.co.jp>

     dma-mapping: fix dma_sync_single_range_*

# Type: Bug fix
Take offset properly into account. Looks good.

commit e053045d37ac1f3d62be0e9cc81f54d5b9980c9e
Author: Alex Chiang <achiang at canonical.com>

     ACPI: sleep: eliminate duplicate entries in acpisleep_dmi_table[]

# Type: "Cosmetic fix"
Does what the comment says. Looks good.

commit 85e346fae9b44a4acfe4d63afae62eae4c25e586
Author: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre at atmel.com>

     mmc: atmel-mci: fix two parameters swapped

# Type: Bug fix
Two params were swapped in two calls (now fixed). Looks good.

commit eac2ef18972dbc56c2540c7302a6c7a1437352ef
Author: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre at atmel.com>

     mmc: atmel-mci: prevent kernel oops while removing card

# Type: Oops
Check for valid data before unmapping the scatter-gather. Looks good.

commit ee7a0b92fcc8d1ab43cff3dd75baeb2f646a93ff
Author: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre at atmel.com>

     mmc: atmel-mci: remove data error interrupt after xfer

# Type: Bug fix
Adding a single write to hw to disable data error interrupts. Looks good.

commit fa157eec79e78a875790df6faf53b3501c33a462
Author: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer at de.ibm.com>

     ptrace: fix return value of do_syscall_trace_enter()

# Type: Bug fix
Don't read regs->gprs[2] until after tracehook_report_syscall_entry() called. Looks good.

commit 73ef533de7533fcf514403125a0d4747d3390317
Author: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>

     powerpc/perf_event: Fix oops due to perf_event_do_pending call

# Type: Oops
Doing ppc asm stuff, which I am assuming is correct. Looks good.

commit cfbca0d1ae392a3b4fb490094ddb951d96591ef3
Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>

     cifs: guard against hardlinking directories

# Type: Bug fix
Explicitly check for directories with the same uniqueid. Looks good.

commit 5eb1c77df310f6def7a8d9e9e2e2061142a2ad63
Author: Valentin Longchamp <valentin.longchamp at epfl.ch>

     serial: imx.c: fix CTS trigger level lower to avoid lost chars

# Type: Bug fix
Set the trigger level to half the RX buffer size (16 bytes). Looks good.

commit 2a3097f24a0e4224e89f4e7e1ed75ef372d11068
Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>

     ALSA: ice1724 - Fix ESI Maya44 capture source control

# Type: Bug fix.
Use correct source for line in. Looks good.

commit bbd7e6ac76997aadf0b827aaca61ba767eb5dd78
Author: Daniel T Chen <crimsun at ubuntu.com>

     ALSA: hda: Fix 0 dB for Lenovo models using Conexant CX20549 (Venice)

# Type: Bug fix.
Add HW id for Lenovo model. Looks good.

commit c606e701ef469582a991aabd3a6f7816a9a9d351
Author: Eric Paris <eparis at redhat.com>

     inotify: race use after free/double free in inotify inode marks

# Type: Bug fix.
Move the call to fsnotify_get_mark above the idr_get_new_above(). Looks good.

commit d8ca15afb835aff91c0a1dedb1b4e47171180312
Author: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul at openvz.org>

     inotify: don't leak user struct on inotify release

# Type: Bug fix
Added free_uid() call. Looks good.

commit 7ff4b9ccdac041b6745b9c43ac2cc5639ffc8c1b
Author: Hugh Dickins <hughd at google.com>

     profile: fix stats and data leakage

# Type: Bug fix
memset the buffer before returning. Looks good.

commit b53d27ff66e343520df4d287c419235fbe6e3fea
Author: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov at amd.com>

     x86, k8: Fix build error when K8_NB is disabled

# Type: Build fix
Looks good.

commit 798e99d358157dfcec37c1b0b911ed711d0e0da6
Author: Frank Arnold <frank.arnold at amd.com>

     x86, cacheinfo: Turn off L3 cache index disable feature in virtualized environments

# Type: Bug fix.
Added check for k8 northbridges. Looks good.

commit f46c7299a930469f51e30b7be281c33630917244
Author: Andreas Herrmann <herrmann.der.user at googlemail.com>

     x86, amd: Check X86_FEATURE_OSVW bit before accessing OSVW MSRs

# Type: Bug fix.
Just adds the check. Looks good.

commit cca8198578b62538e5d30efd94fd7b50a062dfb1
Author: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg at gmail.com>

     Btrfs: check for read permission on src file in the clone ioctl

# Type: Bug fix.
Adds single read permission check. Looks good.

commit 2df4055341695af413219a6160e2f60f22779a8c
Author: Vitaliy Kulikov <Vitaliy.Kulikov at idt.com>

     ALSA: hda - New Intel HDA controller

# Type: PCI Id
Adds single PCI Id. Looks good.

commit c8c4c2f04ba486355d7bc6d909a0723acd10f91d
Author: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro at jp.fujitsu.com>

     proc: partially revert "procfs: provide stack information for threads"

# Type: Revert
Partial revert due to large performance regression. Looks good.

commit 92d664daf9de677afcbf392fac48b734d752abff
Author: Robin Holt <holt at sgi.com>

     revert "procfs: provide stack information for threads" and its fixup commits

# Type: Revert
More revert like previous patch. Looks good.

commit 79ec1d305fe1f2aa77797118fd31ea41e72e7867
Author: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy at intel.com>

     iwlwifi: clear all the stop_queue flag after load firmware

# Type: Bug fix
memset queue_stopped structure and queue_stop_count flags. Looks good.

commit 7bb08a1cac8ed8e4fda495bd907988bd4077b342
Author: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey at googlemail.com>

     p54: disable channels with incomplete calibration data sets

# Type: Bug fix
Return values set and checked propperly now. Looks good.

commit 58e4a597dc9b8cd7ec28680a5b01c3f1718ca115
Author: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>

     CacheFiles: Fix error handling in cachefiles_determine_cache_security()

# Type: Bug fix
Better handling of error condition. Looks good.

commit 9e79d5307f9e53930b1cca4440e2691e0c4d0293
Author: Tomas Henzl <thenzl at redhat.com>

     megaraid_sas: fix for 32bit apps

# Type: Bug fix
Convert from 32bit pointer to 64bit one. Looks good.

commit 734c542a8aa9d7d49ffed09e671972851f25df5e
Author: Kees Cook <kees.cook at canonical.com>

     mmap_min_addr check CAP_SYS_RAWIO only for write

# Type: Security fix
Add check of 'write' flag. Looks good.

commit 7823f8d63003bbb64f30d22929eae50742285b65
Author: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke at lab.ntt.co.jp>

     nilfs2: fix sync silent failure

# Type: Bug fix
Looks good.

commit 4ee20bc28f74a77307091b15d498e44c7f54645e
Author: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez at atheros.com>

     Revert "ath9k: fix lockdep warning when unloading module" on stable kernels

# Type: Revert
Essentially changes two spin_lock calls from spin_lock_bh() to spin_lock(). Looks good.

commit 0ddd11675c96e939b25c36c69dd19eff58bd5967
Author: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>

     crypto: authenc - Add EINPROGRESS check

# Type: Bug fix
Adds calls to check EINPROGRESS various places. Looks good.

commit 763f2ee657b24124d7a0b561b61bdb26231b0169
Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at suse.de>

     Revert "parisc: Set PCI CLS early in boot."

# Type: Revert
Looks good.

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