[Maverick] SRU: Update to 2.6.35.6 stable kernel

Tue Sep 28 01:37:19 UTC 2010

Leann,

I think ti-omap4 also need this stable rebase (both 2.6.35.5 and
2.6.35.6), there are some important fixings for ARM in these 2
release.

Let me prepare the pull request and testing.

-Bryan

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Leann Ogasawara
<leann.ogasawara at canonical.com> wrote:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/649208
>
> 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
> 2.6.35.6 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-2.6.35.6
>    http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.35.6.bz2
>
> Test Case: TBD
>
> A full preview of the patch set can be found at:
>
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ogasawara/ubuntu-maverick.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/stable
>
> I intend to upload a test kernel to my kernel-ppa once we've resolved LP
> Bug 645653:
>
> https://launchpad.net/~leannogasawara/+archive/kernel-ppa
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/645653
>
> Additionally, the following patch was applied to 2.6.35.6 upstream
> stable as a combination of two upstream commits which required
> additional backporting.  We'd already applied this commit as 3 separate
> clean upstream cherry-picks so I've chosen to skip the stable patch in
> favor of the cleaner upstream cherry-picks:
>
>  * intel_agp, drm/i915: Add all sandybridge graphics devices support
>
> The following patches are in the 2.6.35.6 stable release:
>
>  * usb: musb_debugfs: don't use the struct file private_data field with seq_files
>  * USB: serial/mos*: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory
>  * bridge: Clear INET control block of SKBs passed into ip_fragment().
>  * gro: fix different skb headrooms
>  * gro: Re-fix different skb headrooms
>  * irda: Correctly clean up self->ias_obj on irda_bind() failure.
>  * rds: fix a leak of kernel memory
>  * net: RPS needs to depend upon USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
>  * tcp: Combat per-cpu skew in orphan tests.
>  * tcp: fix three tcp sysctls tuning
>  * tcp: select(writefds) don't hang up when a peer close connection
>  * tcp: Prevent overzealous packetization by SWS logic.
>  * udp: add rehash on connect()
>  * UNIX: Do not loop forever at unix_autobind().
>  * l2tp: test for ethernet header in l2tp_eth_dev_recv()
>  * net: blackhole route should always be recalculated
>  * sparc64: Get rid of indirect p1275 PROM call buffer.
>  * drivers/net/usb/hso.c: prevent reading uninitialized memory
>  * drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory
>  * drivers/net/eql.c: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory
>  * bonding: correctly process non-linear skbs
>  * Staging: vt6655: fix buffer overflow
>  * net/llc: make opt unsigned in llc_ui_setsockopt()
>  * mm: fix swapin race condition
>  * mm: further fix swapin race condition
>  * virtio: console: Prevent userspace from submitting NULL buffers
>  * virtio: console: Fix poll blocking even though there is data to read
>  * intel_agp, drm/i915: Add all sandybridge graphics devices support
>  * agp/intel: fix physical address mask bits for sandybridge
>  * agp/intel: fix dma mask bits on sandybridge
>  * hw breakpoints: Fix pid namespace bug
>  * pid: make setpgid() system call use RCU read-side critical section
>  * sched: Fix user time incorrectly accounted as system time on 32-bit
>  * oprofile: Add Support for Intel CPU Family 6 / Model 22 (Intel Celeron 540)
>  * drm/i915,agp/intel: Add second set of PCI-IDs for B43
>  * bdi: Initialize noop_backing_dev_info properly
>  * char: Mark /dev/zero and /dev/kmem as not capable of writeback
>  * drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c: fix build with older gcc's
>  * mmap: call unlink_anon_vmas() in __split_vma() in case of error
>  * drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory
>  * rtc: s3c: balance state changes of wakeup flag
>  * Prevent freeing uninitialized pointer in compat_do_readv_writev
>  * /proc/vmcore: fix seeking
>  * vmscan: check all_unreclaimable in direct reclaim path
>  * percpu: fix pcpu_last_unit_cpu
>  * aio: do not return ERESTARTSYS as a result of AIO
>  * aio: check for multiplication overflow in do_io_submit
>  * x86 platform drivers: hp-wmi Reorder event id processing
>  * GFS2: gfs2_logd should be using interruptible waits
>  * drm/nv50: initialize ramht_refs list for faked 0 channel
>  * inotify: send IN_UNMOUNT events
>  * SCSI: mptsas: fix hangs caused by ATA pass-through
>  * KVM: Keep slot ID in memory slot structure
>  * KVM: Prevent internal slots from being COWed
>  * KVM: MMU: fix direct sp's access corrupted
>  * KVM: x86: emulator: inc/dec can have lock prefix
>  * KVM: MMU: fix mmu notifier invalidate handler for huge spte
>  * KVM: VMX: Fix host GDT.LIMIT corruption
>  * IA64: fix siglock
>  * IA64: Optimize ticket spinlocks in fsys_rt_sigprocmask
>  * KEYS: Fix RCU no-lock warning in keyctl_session_to_parent()
>  * KEYS: Fix bug in keyctl_session_to_parent() if parent has no session keyring
>  * xfs: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory
>  * drivers/video/via/ioctl.c: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory
>  * AT91: change dma resource index
>  * PM: Prevent waiting forever on asynchronous resume after failing suspend
>  * PM / Hibernate: Avoid hitting OOM during preallocation of memory
>  * x86, asm: Use a lower case name for the end macro in atomic64_386_32.S
>  * ALSA: hda - Fix beep frequency on IDT 92HD73xx and 92HD71Bxx codecs
>  * Fix call to replaced SuperIO functions
>  * dell-wmi: Add support for eject key on Dell Studio 1555
>  * mm: page allocator: drain per-cpu lists after direct reclaim allocation fails
>  * mm: page allocator: calculate a better estimate of NR_FREE_PAGES when memory is low and kswapd is awake
>  * mm: page allocator: update free page counters after pages are placed on the free list
>  * guard page for stacks that grow upwards
>  * Fix unprotected access to task credentials in waitid()
>  * sctp: Do not reset the packet during sctp_packet_config().
>  * drm/i915: Ensure that the crtcinfo is populated during mode_fixup()
>  * alpha: Fix printk format errors
>  * Linux 2.6.35.6
>
>
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