[Lucid] SRU: Update to 2.6.32.23

Tue Sep 28 14:50:17 UTC 2010

On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 07:45 -0700, Brad Figg wrote:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/649483
> 
> 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 2.6.32.23 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-2.6.32.23
>      http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.32.23.bz2
> 
> Test Case: TBD
> 
> Test kernels can be found at:
>    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~bradf/linux-2.6.32.23
> 
> The following patches are in the 2.6.32.23 stable release:
> 
> * Linux 2.6.32.23
> * x86: Add memory modify constraints to xchg() and cmpxchg()
> * alpha: Fix printk format errors
> * sis-agp: Remove SIS 760, handled by amd64-agp
> * MIPS: Sibyte: Fix M3 TLB exception handler workaround.
> * pata_pdc202xx_old: fix UDMA mode for PDC2026x chipsets
> * pata_pdc202xx_old: fix UDMA mode for Promise UDMA33 cards
> * MIPS: uasm: Add OR instruction.
> * MIPS: Set io_map_base for several PCI bridges lacking it
> * MIPS: Quit using undefined behavior of ADDU in 64-bit atomic operations.
> * Input: add compat support for sysfs and /proc capabilities output
> * inotify: fix inotify oneshot support
> * hostap_pci: set dev->base_addr during probe
> * gro: Fix bogus gso_size on the first fraglist entry
> * clocksource: sh_tmu: compute mult and shift before registration
> * dasd: use correct label location for diag fba disks
> * asix: fix setting mac address for AX88772
> * 3c503: Fix IRQ probing
> * sctp: Do not reset the packet during sctp_packet_config().
> * Fix unprotected access to task credentials in waitid()
> * guard page for stacks that grow upwards
> * mm: page allocator: update free page counters after pages are placed on the free list
> * mm: page allocator: calculate a better estimate of NR_FREE_PAGES when memory is low and kswapd is awake
> * mm: page allocator: drain per-cpu lists after direct reclaim allocation fails
> * cxgb3: fix hot plug removal crash
> * AT91: change dma resource index
> * bnx2: Fix hang during rmmod bnx2.
> * bnx2: Fix netpoll crash.
> * ACPI: disable _OSI(Windows 2009) on Asus K50IJ
> * drivers/video/via/ioctl.c: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory
> * xfs: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory
> * KEYS: Fix bug in keyctl_session_to_parent() if parent has no session keyring
> * KEYS: Fix RCU no-lock warning in keyctl_session_to_parent()
> * IA64: Optimize ticket spinlocks in fsys_rt_sigprocmask
> * IA64: fix siglock
> * ext4: Fix remaining racy updates of EXT4_I(inode)->i_flags
> * SCSI: mptsas: fix hangs caused by ATA pass-through
> * inotify: send IN_UNMOUNT events
> * aio: check for multiplication overflow in do_io_submit
> * percpu: fix pcpu_last_unit_cpu
> * drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory
> * drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c: fix build with older gcc's
> * char: Mark /dev/zero and /dev/kmem as not capable of writeback
> * oprofile: Add Support for Intel CPU Family 6 / Model 22 (Intel Celeron 540)
> * sched: Fix user time incorrectly accounted as system time on 32-bit
> * pid: make setpgid() system call use RCU read-side critical section
> * net/llc: make opt unsigned in llc_ui_setsockopt()
> * Staging: vt6655: fix buffer overflow
> * bonding: correctly process non-linear skbs
> * drivers/net/eql.c: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory
> * drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory
> * drivers/net/usb/hso.c: prevent reading uninitialized memory
> * sparc64: Get rid of indirect p1275 PROM call buffer.
> * r8169: fix mdio_read and update mdio_write according to hw specs
> * r8169: fix random mdio_write failures
> * UNIX: Do not loop forever at unix_autobind().
> * tcp: Prevent overzealous packetization by SWS logic.
> * rds: fix a leak of kernel memory
> * net: Fix oops from tcp_collapse() when using splice()
> * bridge: Clear INET control block of SKBs passed into ip_fragment().
> * bridge: Clear IPCB before possible entry into IP stack
> * tcp: fix three tcp sysctls tuning
> * tcp: Combat per-cpu skew in orphan tests.
> * tcp: select(writefds) don't hang up when a peer close connection
> * irda: Correctly clean up self->ias_obj on irda_bind() failure.
> * gro: Re-fix different skb headrooms
> * gro: fix different skb headrooms
> * sparc: Provide io{read,write}{16,32}be().
> * USB: serial/mos*: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory
> -- 
> Brad Figg brad.figg at canonical.com http://www.canonical.com
> 

Acked-by: Steve Conklin <sconklin at canonical.com>


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