[ Thanks to John
Gotts for pointing us to this announcement. ]
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 01:28:07 +0000 (GMT)
From: Alan Cox alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
To: kernel@linuxtoday.com
Subject: Linux 2.4.0-ac7
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/
2.4.0-ac7
o Export a KMALLOC_MAXSIZE for drivers to check (Hans Grobler)
| this is needed to verify things like firmware
| sizes passed by users
o Fix highmem compile issues (Ingo Molnar)
o Fix kmalloc check missing in hades-pci (Hans Grobler)
o Fix kmalloc fail crash in sdla_ppp (Hans Grobler)
o cfi locking fixes (Hans Grobler)
o Fix missing spin_unlock_irq in hd6457x.c (Hans Grobler)
o Fix lmc_main missing skb_unlock on error case (Hans Grobler)
o Handle out of memory on lanstreamer (Hans Grobler)
o Bring cs46xx.c into working state for non (Hans Grobler)
module. Fix locking
o Fix filesystem locking documentation (Al Viro)
o Fusion driver updates (Steve Ralston)
o Correct netfilter url (Rusty Russell)
o rcpci45 fix the pci_table name (again) (Hans Grobler)
o Fix scsi option ordering bug noted by (Michael Zieger)
o Config.h include updates (Niels Jensen)
o LFS handling cleanup, move some checks to (Al Viro)
vmtruncate
o Fix missing s->maxbytes setup for procfs (me)
o Replace epic100 patches with alternatives (Jeff Garzik)
o eepro fixes for older cards (Aristeu Sergio
Rozanski Filho)
o Buz error handling fix (Hans Grobler)
o DGRS driver cleanups/kmalloc checks (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
o Fix ioremap leak in zr36120 (Hans Grobler)
o FIx iounmap leaks in Stradis driver (Hans Grobler)
o Further mtd fixes (David Woodhouse)
o Update yellowfin driver (Jeff Garzik, from
Don Beckers drivers)
o Fix iounmap bugs in vga16 (Hans Grobler)
o TCP odd error fix (Dave Miller)
o ll_rw_blk enhancements (Jens Axboe)
o DMFE driver cleanup (Pavel Rabel)
o iucv fix for S/390 build when non SMP (Ulrich Weigand)
o Merge linus -pre2
o Fix ixj kmalloc checks (Ingo Molnar)
o Fix null pointer check in ibm partition code (Ingo Molnar)
o Fix kmalloc check in pc_keyb (Ingo Molnar)
o Fix kmalloc check in atari_pamsnet (Ingo Molnar)
o Fix kmalloc check in 3c515 (Ingo Molnar)
o Tidy up defxx/fix module locks etc (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix kmalloc check in atari_bionet (Ingo Molnar)
o Fix kmalloc check in olympic driver (Ingo Molnar)
o Fix kmalloc checks in avmb1 driver (Ingo Molnar)
o Tokenring needs to be an object file as its (Jeff Garzik)
using initcalls
2.4.0-ac6
o Sunrpc locking fix ()
o Made agpgart smarter about i815 (Charles McLachlan)
o Speed up truncate for shmem and clean up (Christoph Rohland)
o Fix kmalloc test in udf (Ingo Molnar)
o Fix ramfs kmalloc testing (Ingo Molnar)
o Fix irq and sense handling bugs in S/390 (Holger Smolinksi)
o Fix string.h for userspace accidental include (me)
| noted by Ulrich Weigand
o Red Hat office move (David Woodhouse)
o Fix missing highmem includes (Jens Axboe)
o Fix nfs_flushd deadlock (Trond Myklebust)
o Honour owner in mpu401 (Chris Rankin)
o Fix raid5 kmalloc check (Ingo Molnar)
o Export mmu_cr4_features (Adam J Richter)
o Update ide floppy maintainer (Paul Bristow)
o Fix IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP case (Stefan Jonsson)
o Wavelan resource leak fixes (Hans Grobler)
o Fix spinlock error introduced from 2.4.1pre (Benjamin Redelings)
o Fix u32 classifier possible hang (Dave Miller)
o Further warning fixes (Rich Baum)
o RCPCI driver further cleanups (Rasmus Andersen)
o Remove unneeded test from rlimit code (Hans Grobler)
o Generate header file tags as well as code (Hans Grobler)
o Fix ppp_generic label problem (William Lee Irwin)
o Fix errors failing to restore IRQ's on smctr (Hans Grobler)
o Fix bulkmem kmalloc check error (Ingo Molnar)
o Fix pci kmalloc fail handling error (Ingo Molnar)
o Fix dac960 kmalloc check (Ingo Molnar)
| new driver rev from LNZ due anyway however
o Fix pcmcia cs kmalloc check error (Thiago Rondon)
o Fix pcmcia ds kmalloc check error (Thiago Rondon)
o Bootmem.c uses phys_to_virt but misses include (Bjorn Wesen)
o Fix sknet kmalloc check (Ingo Molnar)
o Fix lmc kmalloc check (Ingo Molnar)
o Atarilance kmalloc check (Ingo Molnar)
o Make some symbols static (Dan Aloni)
o Fix sgiseeq kmalloc fail handling (Ingo Molnar)
o ISDN kmalloc null check fix (Ingo Molnar)
o ATM kmalloc fix (Ingo Molnar)
o Apa1480 kmalloc null check fix (Ingo Molnar)
o Sunlance kmalloc check fix (Ingo Molnar)
o Baget lance kmalloc check fix (Ingo Molnar)
o Update Jes Sorensen's email addr (me)
o Fix athlon crash on boot with local apic/nmi (Ingo Molnar)
o Further ds fix (Dan Aloni)
(Can the pcmcia folk verify that in fact you
could just move it)
o Fix iucv kmalloc bogon (Ingo Molnar)
o Fix sun3 video kmalloc check (Thiago Rondon)
o Further raid5 fixes (Ingo Molnar)
o Netfilter updates (Rusty Russell)
| (so come to www.linux.conf.au and say thanks)
o Update audio locking fixes (Chris Rankin)
o Remove ymf_sb driver now ymfpci handles all (Pete Zaitcev)
2.4.0-ac5
o Fix qnx build error (Frank Davis)
o Further generic_file_write fix (me)
| no signal on short write
| write data on write overlapping max fs size
o 3c515 dereferenced freeed skbuffs (Hans Grobler)
o opl3sa2 driver update (Scott Murray)
o Uninline strstr to fix gcc compile problems (me)
| as in 2.2
o Fix dmfe oops if no card found (Andrew Morton)
o Fix df reporting on ntfs (Anton Altaparmakov)
| alternate fix to one by Willem Dekker
o Fix error path on macii_init that left irqs off (Hans Grobler)
o Fix memory/resource leaks in tlan driver (Hans Grobler)
o Fix vmalloc end on highmem (Ingo Molnar)
o Allow dac960 root device specifiers (Leonard Zubkoff)
o Fix missing NULL kmalloc check in fore200e (Hans Grobler)
o AF_UNIX cleanup continued (Hans Grobler)
o Chkconfig fixes (Niels Jensen)
o Fix kmalloc check missing on ppc proc/rtas (Hans Grobler)
o Add recovery for get_block failures (Al Viro)
o Fix partially mapped page handling in gfw (Al Viro)
o Use s_maxbytes in lseek (Al Viro)
o Correct various ext2 items (Al Viro)
o Fix memory leak in 3c527 driver (Hans Grobler)
o Clean up ipc formatting etc except shm (Ingo Molnar)
o Add mising BSDCOMP documentation (Kai Germaschewski)
o Fix unchecked allocation in isdn_ppp.c (Hans Grobler)
o Revised ad1848 patch (Chris Rankin)
o Fix missing kmalloc check on hdlc (Krzysztof Halasa)
o Make mnt name behaviour predictable on oom (Ingo Molnar)
o Configure doc fixes (Jeremy Dolan)
o Fix amifb endif typo (Rich Baum)
o Fix bug where mtd driver left irqs off on error (Hans Grobler)
o Adjusted ext2 max size rule (Andreas Dilger)
o Fix non SMP build of S/390 tree (Bernhard Rosenkraenzer)
o Uniprocessor APIC support/NMI wdog etc (Ingo Molnar)
o IXJ driver cleanups/fixes/updates (David Huggins-Daines)
o Fix endian and other minor partition bugs (Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz)
o Fix nasty irda bug which could leave ints off (Hans Grobler)
o FIx bmac case where ints could be left off (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
o Remove surplus break from de620 (Hans Grobler)
o Fix iph5526 dereference of free skb (Hans Grobler)
o Remove invalid netfilter url from docs (David Rees)
o Fix madvise crash (Andrew Morton)
o Fix memleak in eepro driver error path (Hans Grobler)
o Ultrastor driver used wrong type for save_flags (Thiago Rondon)
o Fix spin_unlock missing in s390 error path (Hans Grobler)
o MTD update (David Woodhouse)
o Tidy softdog driver (Hans Grobler)
o Fix sunos syscall memory leak (Hans Grobler)
o Fix surplus remove_flags in 53c7xx,8xx driver (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
o Tidy isicom, fix missing restore_flags (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
o Fix missing restore_flags in sscape (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
o Make ixj use dynamic board structures (David Huggins-Daines)
o Fix missing spin_unlock in i2o block (Hans Grobler)
o Fix ad1848 missing restore_flags (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
o Fix missing spin_unlock in ymfpci (Hans Grobler)
o Adaptec 1542 SCSI command line options (Dmitry Potapov)
o Fix missing ksym (Eyal Lebedinsky)
o Fix megaraid driver (Anwar Payyoorayil)
o Sparc xor fix (Anton Blanchard)
o Fix error returns on truncate/open (Al Viro)
o Fix missing restore_flags in n_r3964 (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
o mxser driver capable/return fixes (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
o Fix missing __restore_flags on IDE (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
o Fix missing spin_unlock_irqrestore in EMU10K (Hans Grobler)
o Resync with Linus tree
2.4.0-ac4
o Fix dereference of freed skbuff in iphase (Hans Grobler)
o Fix dereference of freed skbuff in isdn_ppp (Hans Grobler)
o Fix dereference of freed skbuff in comx (Hans Grobler)
o Fix dereference of freed skbuff in atarilance (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
o Fix missing NULL check of dev_alloc_skb in (Hans Grobler)
hdlc layer
o Fix vesafb typo (Dag Wieers)
o Z85230 driver cleanup (Hans Grobler)
o Remove spare restore_flags in de600 (Hans Grobler)
o Catch failed kmallocs in ppc ethernet (Hans Grobler)
o AF_PACKET socket cleanup (Hans Grobler)
o ATAPI IDE format facility (Sam Varshavchik)
| Don't rely on the abi or anything yet, Gadi
| the maintainer has yet to comment on it
o Fix smc9194 crash on out of memory (Hans Grobler)
o Documentation fixes (Dag Wieers)
o Fusion driver updates (Steve Ralston,
Eddie Dost,
Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
o Fix ramfs hangs (me)
o Fix assorted LFS problems and missing rlimit (me)
checks. In theory file size rules are now
right and properly enforced except for those
folks not using generic_file_write who need to
do their homework 8)
2.4.0-ac3
o Add support for the newer 3c905 cards (Andrew Morton)
o Drop unused field from scc.h (Hans Grobler)
o Remove dead sysctl stuff from econet (Hans Grobler)
o Fix documentation indexes (Paul Gortmaker)
o Fix post free reference of an skb in lance (Paul Gortmaker)
o Tidy appletalk code (Hans Grobler)
o Fix bootup vesafb hang (David Wragg)
o TCP 'reset_xmit_timer' fix (Dave Miller)
o Tidy up cursor positioning on menuconfig (Kirk Reiser)
o Add missing wait.h includes to some asm/semaphore
(Hans Grobler)
o AF_UNIX socket cleanup (Hans Grobler)
o Update sd locking fixes (Oliver Neukum)
o Add module locking to audio coprocessor calls (Chris Rankin)
o Minor further X.25 tidy (Hans Grobler)
o Fix scsi ioctl/scan crash on out of memory (Douglas Gilbert)
o Soundscape patches (Chris Rankin)
o M68K fixes for mem stats and stram (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o Set MSG_TRUNC correctly on atm sockets (Matti Aarnio)
o Add infrastructure for parport autoloading (Adam J Richter)
o Make lp driver use capable not old suser() (Tim Waugh)
o Fix thread/unload race on i2o block (me)
o Fix drivers that use asm/delay not linux/delay (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o Further warning fixes (Rich Baum)
o Netfilter config/Makefile fixes (Dave Miller)
o Merge updated cs4281 driver and tidy it (Tom Woller)
| some cleanups by me, possibly broken it ;)
o Fix bagetlance reference of freed buffer (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o ISDN small fixes (Andrea Baldoni,
Daniel Stodden)
o ESS Maestro 3 driver (Zach Brown)
2.4.0-ac2
o Clean up strip driver (Hans Grobler)
o Fix fore atm makefile (Jan Rekorajski)
o Fix m68k lance mismerge (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o Fix tty documentation typos (Hans Grobler)
o Fix ohci1394 build (Arjan van de Ven)
o Remove dead lapbether inits (Hans Grobler)
o Workaround the acpi recursive variable name (Bill Wendling)
Makefile problem
o Further minor S/390 merge (Ulrich Weigand)
o Fix DRM build problem on ATI Rage 120/no AGP (Gareth Hughes)
o Fix mac address setting in 8139too (Ben Greear)
o AGP oops fix/ALi cleanup (Bill Crawford)
o Further DECnet cleanups (Hans Grobler)
o S/390 last fixes (Ulrich Weigand)
o Fix missing arlan symbol (Hans Grobler)
o Do basic IPX/SPX cleanups (Hans Grobler)
2.4.0-ac1
o Resync with Linus
o Fix serial compile bug (Bill Notthingham)
o Clean up lapbether (Hans Grobler)
o Fix endian handling in ne.c (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o Fix root umount handling (Chris Mason &
Al Viro)
o Bring wan drivers up to scratch for 2.4 (Krzysztof Halasa)
o SD module locking fix (Oliver Neukum)
o Merge S/390 32/64bit ports (IBM)
| some rough edges to tidy up yet - guys can
| you change the DMA ifdefs to match 2.2 style..
---
Alan Cox alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Red Hat Kernel Hacker
& Linux 2.2 Maintainer Brainbench MVP for TCP/IP
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