[Applied] [Maverick] SRU: Update to 2.6.35.8 (upstream stable release)

Wed Nov 17 17:35:49 UTC 2010

On 11/16/2010 08:53 PM, Brad Figg wrote:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/672664
>
> SRU Justification
>
>    Impact:
>
>    The upstream process for stable tree updates is quite similar in scope to the Ubuntu SRU process, e.g., each patch has to demonstrably fix a bug, and each patch is vetted by upstream by originating either directly from Linus' tree or in a minimally
> backported form of that patch.
>
>    The 2.6.35.8 upstream stable patch set is now available. It should be
>    included in the Ubuntu kernel as well.
>
>        http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.35.8
>        http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.35.8.bz2
>
>    Test Case: TBD
>
>    The following patches are in the 2.6.35.8 stable release:
>
>    Linux 2.6.35.8
>    mm: Move vma_stack_continue into mm.h
>    execve: make responsive to SIGKILL with large arguments
>    execve: improve interactivity with large arguments
>    setup_arg_pages: diagnose excessive argument size
>    x86, mm: Fix CONFIG_VMSPLIT_1G and 2G_OPT trampoline
>    x86-32: Fix dummy trampoline-related inline stubs
>    x86-32: Separate 1:1 pagetables from swapper_pg_dir
>    agp/intel: Fix cache control for Sandybridge
>    x86: detect scattered cpuid features earlier
>    PM / ACPI: Blacklist systems known to require acpi_sleep=nonvs
>    ACPI: Disable Windows Vista compatibility for Toshiba P305D
>    ACPI: delete ZEPTO idle=nomwait DMI quirk
>    ACPI: EC: add Vista incompatibility DMI entry for Toshiba Satellite L355
>    intel_idle: PCI quirk to prevent Lenovo Ideapad s10-3 boot hang
>    ACPI: enable repeated PCIEXP wakeup by clearing PCIEXP_WAKE_STS on resume
>    ALSA: hda - add ideapad model for Conexant 5051 codec
>    b44: fix carrier detection on bind
>    powerpc: Don't use kernel stack with translation off
>    powerpc: Initialise paca->kstack before early_setup_secondary
>    ACPI: Handle ACPI0007 Device in acpi_early_set_pdc
>    virtio: console: Don't block entire guest if host doesn't read data
>    Fix VPD inquiry page wrapper
>    bsg: fix incorrect device_status value
>    KVM: Fix reboot on Intel hosts
>    KVM: fix irqfd assign/deassign race
>    KVM: x86: Move TSC reset out of vmcb_init
>    KVM: x86: Fix SVM VMCB reset
>    KVM: i8259: fix migration
>    r8169: allocate with GFP_KERNEL flag when able to sleep
>    skge: add quirk to limit DMA
>    xfs: properly account for reclaimed inodes
>    V4L/DVB: dib7770: enable the current mirror
>    mmc: sdio: fix SDIO suspend/resume regression
>    drm/radeon/kms: add quirk for MSI K9A2GM motherboard
>    drm/radeon/kms: fix potential segfault in r600_ioctl_wait_idle
>    drm/radeon/kms: fix up encoder info messages for DFP6
>    drm/radeon/kms: fix possible sigbus in evergreen accel code
>    drm/radeon: fix PCI ID 5657 to be an RV410
>    drm: Hold the mutex when dropping the last GEM reference (v2)
>    drm: Prune GEM vma entries
>    drm/i915: fix GMCH power reporting
>    drm/i915: Sanity check pread/pwrite
>    drm/i915: Prevent module unload to avoid random memory corruption
>    firewire: ohci: fix TI TSB82AA2 regression since 2.6.35
>    De-pessimize rds_page_copy_user
>    x86, AMD, MCE thresholding: Fix the MCi_MISCj iteration order
>    x86, numa: For each node, register the memory blocks actually used
>    atl1: fix resume
>    wext: fix potential private ioctl memory content leak
>    mfd: Ignore non-GPIO IRQs when setting wm831x IRQ types
>    ocfs2: Don't walk off the end of fast symlinks.
>    reiserfs: fix unwanted reiserfs lock recursion
>    reiserfs: fix dependency inversion between inode and reiserfs mutexes
>    i2c-pca: Fix waitforcompletion() return value
>    hrtimer: Preserve timer state in remove_hrtimer()
>    drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem.c: Add missing error handling code
>    dmaengine: fix interrupt clearing for mv_xor
>    ring-buffer: Fix typo of time extends per page
>    virtio-blk: fix request leak.
>    OSS: soundcard: locking bug in sound_ioctl()
>    ubd: fix incorrect sector handling during request restart
>    x86, irq: Plug memory leak in sparse irq
>    x86, hpet: Fix bogus error check in hpet_assign_irq()
>    mac80211: fix use-after-free
>    ioat2: fix performance regression
>    Input: wacom - fix pressure in Cintiq 21UX2
>    Input: joydev - fix JSIOCSAXMAP ioctl
>    V4L/DVB: Don't identify PV SBTVD Hybrid as a DibCom device
>    V4L/DVB: IR: fix keys beeing stuck down forever
>    V4L/DVB: cx231xx: Avoid an OOPS when card is unknown (card=0)
>    v4l1: fix 32-bit compat microcode loading translation
>    i7core_edac: fix panic in udimm sysfs attributes registration
>    ksm: fix bad user data when swapping
>    tracing/x86: Don't use mcount in kvmclock.c
>    tracing/x86: Don't use mcount in pvclock.c
>    x86/amd-iommu: Work around S3 BIOS bug
>    x86/amd-iommu: Fix rounding-bug in __unmap_single
>    x86/amd-iommu: Set iommu configuration flags in enable-loop
>    mmc: sdhci-s3c: fix NULL ptr access in sdhci_s3c_remove
>    V4L/DVB: gspca - sn9c20x: Bad transfer size of Bayer images
>    V4L/DVB: gspca - main: Fix a crash of some webcams on ARM arch
>    ARM: 6395/1: VExpress: Set bit 22 in the PL310 (cache controller) AuxCtlr register
>    ARM: 6400/1: at91: fix arch_gettimeoffset fallout
>    drm/radeon/kms: avivo cursor workaround applies to evergreen as well
>    drm/radeon/kms: fix bad cast/shift in evergreen.c
>    RDMA/cxgb3: Turn off RX coalescing for iWARP connections
>    oprofile, ARM: Release resources on failure
>    oprofile: Add Support for Intel CPU Family 6 / Model 29
>    ACPI: invoke DSDT corruption workaround on all Toshiba Satellite
>    lib/list_sort: do not pass bad pointers to cmp callback
>    ahci: fix module refcount breakage introduced by libahci split
>    HID: hidraw, fix a NULL pointer dereference in hidraw_write
>    HID: hidraw, fix a NULL pointer dereference in hidraw_ioctl
>    usb: musb: gadget: restart request on clearing endpoint halt
>    usb: musb: gadget: fix kernel panic if using out ep with FIFO_TXRX style
>    USB: fix bug in initialization of interface minor numbers
>    hwmon: (lis3) Fix Oops with NULL platform data
>    ALSA: rawmidi: fix oops (use after free) when unloading a driver module
>    ALSA: prevent heap corruption in snd_ctl_new()
>    ALSA: hda - Add Dell Latitude E6400 model quirk
>    ALSA: oxygen: fix analog capture on Claro halo cards
>    ALSA: sound/pci/rme9652: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory
>    x86, cpu: After uncapping CPUID, re-run CPU feature detection
>
>

Applied to Maverick master branch.

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