Marcelo Tosatti: Linux 2.4.29-rc1

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Hi,

Here goes the first release canditate of v2.4.29.

This time it contains a SATA update, bunch of network drivers updates, amongst others.

More importantly it fixes a sys_uselib() vulnerability discovered by Paul Starzetz:

CAN-2004-1235
http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0021-uselib.txt

Upgrade is recommended for users of v2.4.x mainline, distros should be releasing their updates real soon now.

Summary of changes from v2.4.29-pre3 to v2.4.29-rc1

<a.pugachev:pcs-net.net>:

• drivers/net/appletalk/Config.in depends on CONFIG_ATALK

<albertcc:tw.ibm.com>:

• [libata] use PIO mode for request sense
• [libata] PIO error handling improvement
• [libata] verify ATAPI DMA for a given request is OK

<gortan:tttech.com>:

• 8139cp: support for TTTech MC322

<jason.d.gaston:intel.com>:

• SATA support for Intel ICH7

<mbellon:mvista.com>:

• 32 bit ltrace oops when tracing 64 bit executable [X86_64]

<mhw:wittsend.com>:

• Computone driver update

<penguin:muskoka.com>:

• 8390 Tx fix for non i386

<stkn:gentoo.org>:

• [libata] add #include (fixes 2.4 alpha build)

Don Fry:

• pcnet32: added pci_disable_device

Ganesh Venkatesan:

• e1000: ITR does not default correctly on 2.4.x kernels
• e1000: Fix for kernel panic when the interface is brought down while the NAPI enabled driver is under stress
• e1000: Fix ethtool diagnostics -- specifically for blade server implementations
• e1000: Enabling NETIF_F_SG without checksum offload is illegal
• e1000: remove a redundant assignment to a local nr_frags in e1000_xmit_frame
• e1000: Synchronizing multicast table setup with transmit path - ak@suse.de
• e1000: fix tx resource cleanup logic
• e1000: {set, get}_wol is now symmetric for 82545EM adapters
• e1000: Sparse cleanup - shemminger@osdl.org
• e1000: Added workaround to prevent inadvertent gigabit waveform to be sent out on the wire due to init-time operations on the IGP phy.
• e1000: Applied eeprom fix where it was possible to read/write
• e1000: Applied smart speed fix where the code was forcing smart speed on all the time. Now it will honor the setting defined in the eeprom.
• e1000: Driver version number, white spaces, comments, device id & other changes
• e1000: Documentation/networking/e1000.txt update

Ian Kent:

• autofs4 add missing compat ioctls

Jean Delvare:

• I2C: Cleanup a couple media/video drivers

Jeff Garzik:

• [libata sata_nv] fix dev detect by removing sata-reset flag
• [libata sata_uli] add 5281 support, fix SATA phy setup for others

Marcelo Tosatti:

• Changed VERSION to 2.4.29-rc1
• Paul Starzetz: sys_uselib() race vulnerability (CAN-2004-1235)

Margit Schubert-While:

• prism54 sync with 2.6
• prism54 fix resume processing
• prism54 sparse fixes

Paul Mackerras:

• PPC64 signal code cleanup

Pete Zaitcev:

• USB: Add user defined IDs to ftdi

Ralf Bächle:

• MIPS network drivers
• NE2000 on Toshiba RBTX4927 fixes

Solar Designer:

• Check for zero program header on load_elf_interp()