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

Thu Jun 3 21:11:57 UTC 2010

On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 19:36 +0200, 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

The only one that looks hairy is PowerPC specific and presumed to be
correct, no risk for the primary distro kernels.

Details:

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

    Revert "module: fix __module_ref_addr()"

# Type: NEW
Looks sane

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

    ipv4: udp: fix short packet and bad checksum logging

# Type: NEW
Totally sane

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

    hp_accel: fix race in device removal

# Type: NEW
Looks good - Simple swap of two lines to close a window where an active
work queue may be flushed

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

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

# Type: NEW
Looks good! Specific to the blackfin LCD frame buffer

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

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

# Type: NEW
Looks ok, very small, simple patch

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

    dma-mapping: fix dma_sync_single_range_*

# Type: NEW
Looks sane

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

    ACPI: sleep: eliminate duplicate entries in acpisleep_dmi_table[]

# Type: NEW
Looks good - removes some duplicates, shouldn't change functionality at
all

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

    mmc: atmel-mci: fix two parameters swapped

# Type: NEW
Looks ok, is limited to atmel MMC device and originated at atmel

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

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

# Type: NEW
looks good, limited to atmel MMC device and originated at atmel

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

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

# Type: NEW
looks good, limited to atmel MMC device and originated at atmel

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

    ptrace: fix return value of do_syscall_trace_enter()

# Type: NEW
Looks ok

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

    powerpc/perf_event: Fix oops due to perf_event_do_pending call

# Type: NEW
looks ok - complex but very arch-specific, no risk for anything other
than powerpc

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

    cifs: guard against hardlinking directories

# Type: NEW
ok - Not trivial, but it is a legitimate fix for the described problem

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

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

# Type: NEW
OK - good fix to set CTS assertion at half FIFO full instead of full

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

    ALSA: ice1724 - Fix ESI Maya44 capture source control

# Type: NEW
Looks good - Fixes an input mapping error specific to one device, low
risk

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

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

# Type: NEW
Good - an audio quirk specific to a single lenovo product

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

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

# Type: NEW
Looks good

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

    inotify: don't leak user struct on inotify release

# Type: NEW
Looks good, simple one-liner

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

    profile: fix stats and data leakage

# Type: NEW
OK - Simple, sane fix to initialize profiling memory

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

    x86, k8: Fix build error when K8_NB is disabled

# Type: NEW
ok - sane fix for a build error

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

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

# Type: NEW
Looks good - simple patch for a problem described in the patch like
this:
"The L3 cache index disable feature of AMD CPUs has to be disabled if
the
    kernel is running as guest on top of a hypervisor because
northbridge
    devices are not available to the guest. Currently, this fixes a boot
    crash on top of Xen. In the future this will become an issue on KVM
as
    well."

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

    x86, amd: Check X86_FEATURE_OSVW bit before accessing OSVW MSRs

# Type: NEW
Looks good - checking a feature flag before using the feature just makes
sense.

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

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

# Type: NEW
Looks good. Fixes a bug that allowed cloning of write-only files in
btrfs

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

    ALSA: hda - New Intel HDA controller

# Type: NEW
Good - simple add of a new controller ID

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

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

# Type: NEW
OK - this reverts a patch that was found to cause performance problems
with ps

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

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

# Type: NEW
probably ok - a non-trivial patch to further revert some patches which
caused performance problems

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

    iwlwifi: clear all the stop_queue flag after load firmware

# Type: NEW
Looks ok - isolated to iwlwifi, make sure queue status flags are
correctly set

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

    p54: disable channels with incomplete calibration data sets

# Type: NEW
looks ok - several fixes insluding handling of channel list generation,
improvement
to some error messages, and fixing some return codes.
low risk because it is limited to the prism54 wireless driver.

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

    CacheFiles: Fix error handling in
cachefiles_determine_cache_security()

# Type: NEW
Looks good - simple fix to the problem described

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

    megaraid_sas: fix for 32bit apps

# Type: NEW
Looks ok - Adds conversion of 32-bit pointers to 64-bit for 32 bit apps
running on 64-bit OS

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

    mmap_min_addr check CAP_SYS_RAWIO only for write

# Type: NEW
Looks good. Simple fix - winner of most entertaining patch in this set

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

    nilfs2: fix sync silent failure

# Type: NEW
OK - simple patch, looks fine

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

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

# Type: NEW
Looks good. Limited to ath9k and looks sane

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

    crypto: authenc - Add EINPROGRESS check

# Type: NEW
Looks OK - non-trivial as it adds checks to a bunch of completion points
in the code, but is sensible.

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

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

# Type: NEW
Looks OK - I'm not sure of the exact functionality that was reverted,
but this is a precise reversion
of the patch that is listed.

commit 7b7a917a0d6160a15ba34b203874f98de90af192
Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at suse.de>

    Linux 2.6.32.14

# Type: NEW
Good - the extraversion change for this change set

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