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Marcelo Tosatti: Linux 2.4.25-pre4

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Hi,

Moving on with the 2.4.24-pre tree, here is 2.4.25-pre4.

It contains an ext2/3 update (mostly forward compatibility
related), the usual architecture updates (this time S390, PPC64/32,
SH), osst update, TG3 bugfixes, amongst others.

Some of the fixes listed in this changelog (the rtc fixes, the
IrDA “log buster” fix and the netfilter MASQUERADE oops) were
already in other -pre’s, they got removed and re added for
technical BK reasons.

Summary of changes from v2.4.24-pre3 to v2.4.25-pre4


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  • Fix 2.4 EFI RTC oops

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  • sh/sh64: Add CONFIG_OOM_KILLER entries
  • sh: Add EXPEVT to pt_regs
  • sh64: Add dma.o to export-objs
  • sh64: shwdt updates

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  • Andrea Arcangeli: malicious users of mremap() syscall can gain
    priviledges

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  • /dev/rtc can leak parts of kernel memory to unpriviledged
    users

David Engebretsen:

  • [PPC64] Store and use the ibm,phandle device-tree property from
    OF
  • [PPC64] Export Logical Partitioning config data to
    userspace

David S. Miller:

  • [TG3]: Update version and reldate

Erik Andersen:

  • fix broken 2.4.x rt_sigprocmask error handling

François Romieu:

  • [TG3]: Fix bogus return value in tg3_init_one()

Herbert Xu:

  • Handle j_commit_interval == 0

Hollis Blanchard:

  • [PPC64] Recognize new-style device-tree nodes for virtual
    terminals

Jean Tourrilhes:

  • IrDA kernel log buster

Kai Makisara:

  • SCSI tape bug fix (variable block mode,

Linus Torvalds:

  • Daniel Tram Lux: IDE timeout race fix

Martin Schwidefsky:

  • S390 base fixes
  • S390 common i/o layer fixes
  • S390: 31 bit compat bug fixes
  • S390: ctc network driver update
  • S390: xpram device driver
  • S390: DASD update

Oleg Drokin:

  • Fix megaraid leak survived by latest update

Olof Johansson:

  • [PPC64] Rename some RTAS-specific constants to avoid name
    clashes

Paul Mackerras:

  • [PPC64] Remove references to KDB since it isn’t in the official
    tree
  • [PPC64] Fix compilation with CONFIG_SMP=n
  • [PPC64] Add include/asm-ppc64/iSeries/vio.h which was missed
    before
  • [PPC64] Add support for the VMX (aka Altivec) unit on the
    PPC970
  • [PPC64] Add CPU feature bits to indicate presence of breakpoint
    registers
  • [PPC64] Fix a few compile warnings and remove some dead
    code
  • [PPC64] Fix a bug in starting kernel threads
  • [PPC64] Set ELF_HWCAP to something useful: a bitmap of CPU
    features
  • [PPC64] Fix for periodic interrupts on iSeries with shared
    processors
  • [PPC64] Cope with slow RTC chips
  • [PPC64] Better handling of machine checks
  • [PPC64] Don’t create /proc/rtas files for unimplemented
    services
  • [PPC64] Fix up bug in setting up the firmware features
    bitmap
  • [PPC64] Fix a compile error introduced with some recent
    changes

Theodore Y. T’so:

  • EXT2/3 Updates: Reclaim pages in truncate
  • EXT2/3 Updates: 2.6 EA symlink compatibility
  • EXT2/3 Updates: forward-compatibility: online resizing
  • EXT2/3 Updates: Allow filesystems with expanded inodes to be
    mounted

Tom Rini:

  • PPC32: Add support for the OpenPIC register set to be in BE
    mode
  • PPC32: Fix the floppy driver, on CONFIG_NOT_COHERENT_CACHE
  • PPC32: Fix a typo in two files
  • PPC32: Fix memory detection of PReP machines with OF

Willem Riede:

  • OnStream tape driver update

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