Marcelo Tosatti: Linux 2.4.29

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final:

• 2.4.29-rc4 was released as 2.4.29 with no changes.

Summary of changes from v2.4.29-rc3 to v2.4.29-rc4

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Marcelo Tosatti:

• Cset exclude:
  solar@openwall.com|ChangeSet|20041218011100|24870
• Changed VERSION to 2.4.29-rc4
• Update i386 defconfig

Summary of changes from v2.4.29-rc2 to v2.4.29-rc3

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<raivis:mt.lv>:

• [NEIGH]: Calculate hash_val after possible table growth, not
  before

<scott:sonic.net>:

• Fix net neighbour hash bug

David S. Miller:

• [TG3]: Return 0 when PHY read times out, not all-ones
• [TG3]: Fix signedness issues in PHY read/write loops
• [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate
• [INET_ECN]: Add INET_ECN_* enumeration from 2.6.x

Hideaki Yoshifuji:

• [IPV6]: Fix tunnel list locking in sit.c

Jamal Hadi Salim:

• [NET]: Add ETH_P_MPLS_* and ARPHRD_INFINIBAND defines from
  2.6.x

Marcelo Tosatti:

• Adrian/Arjan/Marcelo: change tty_wakeup/tty_ldisc_flush to
  non-GPL export for compat reasons and change requirement to
  modutils 2.4.10
• Changed VERSION to 2.4.29-rc3

Olaf Kirch:

• [NET]: Fix CMSG32_OK macros

Patrick McHardy:

• [NETFILTER]: Associate locally generated ICMP errors with
  conntrack of original packet
• [NETFILTER]: Remove CONFIG_IPNFNAT_LOCAL config option
• [NETFILTER]: Save a level of indentation in
  icmp_reply_translation
• [NETFILTER]: Apply PRE_ROUTING manips in LOCAL_OUT for locally
  generated icmp errors
• [NETFILTER]: Verify NAT manips have been applied before
  reversing them in icmp_reply_translation
• [NETFILTER]: Release dst_entry in PRE_ROUTING after NAT
• [NETFILTER]: Fix stack leakage in iptables/ip6_tables

Phil Oester:

• [NETFILTER]: revert MASQUERADE optimization for mostly static
  IPs

Sridhar Samudrala:

• [SCTP] Fix potential null pointer dereference in
  sctp_err_lookup()
• [SCTP] Code cleanup: remove unused code and make needlessly
  global code static
• [SCTP] Treat ICMP protocol unreachable errors from non-SCTP
  capable hosts as ABORTs.
• [SCTP] Validate and respond to invalid chunk/parameter
  lengths
• [SCTP] Implementation of SCTP Implementer’s Guide Section
  2.35
• [SCTP] Clean up the T3_rtx timer when deleting a transport
• [SCTP] Fix bug in setting ephemeral port in the bind
  address
• [SCTP] Fix misc. issues in SCTP_PEER_ADDR_PARAMS set socket
  option
• [SCTP] Remove sk_xxx macros to be consistent with the rest of
  networking code and to avoid backporting issues.
• [SCTP] Fix sctp_getladdrs() to return valid local addresses on
  an endpoint that is bound to INADDR_ANY or inaddr6_any.

Thomas Graf:

• [PKT_SCHED]: dsmark should ignore ECN bits

Wensong Zhang:

• [IPVS]: change to run master/backup sync daemon at a time

Yasuyuki Kozakai:

• [NETFILTER]: Backport fixes for ip6t_LOG
• [NETFILTER]: Backport fixes for ip6t_dst
• [NETFILTER]: Fix check for ESP header size in ip6t_esp
• [NETFILTER]: Backport fixes for ip6t_eui64
• [NETFILTER]: Backport fixes for ip6t_frag
• [NETFILTER]: Backport fixes for ip6t_hbh
• [NETFILTER]: Backport fixes for ip6t_ipv6header
• [NETFILTER]: Backport fixes for ip6t_multiport
• [NETFILTER]: Backport fixes for ip6t_rt
• [NETFILTER]: Backport fixes for ip6tables

Summary of changes from v2.4.29-rc1 to v2.4.29-rc2

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Christoph Hellwig:

• [XFS] make sure to always reclaim inodes in
  xfs_finish_reclaim
• [XFS] Fix NFS inode data corruption
• [XFS] Disable variable sized transfers on loop devices
• [XFS] Fix compilations for parisc

Geert Uytterhoeven:

• Kill unused variables in the tty code
• Kill unused variables in the net code

Jan Harkes:

• Fix Coda bugs found by Coverity checker

Marcelo Tosatti:

• Update Dave Jones email address in MAINTAINERS file
• Linus Torvalds: Warn if mmap_sem is not locked in do_brk
• Change do_uselib() fix to match v2.6, rip do_brk_locked()
• Brad Spengler: Fix random poolsize sysctl (from 2.6.10-ac)
• Alan Cox: Fix moxa serial bound checking issue (from
  2.6.10-ac)
• Brad Spengler: Fix RLIMIT_MEMLOCK issue
• get_user_pages: Change BUG_ON to WARN_ON
• Alan Cox: rose_rt_ioctl lack of bounds checking, reported by
  Coverity (from 2.6.10-ac)
• Alan Cox: sdla_xfer lack of bounds checking, reported by
  Coverity (from 2.6.10-ac)
• Makefile
• Revert dubious get_user_pages() bug checking
• Olaf Kirch: sendmsg compat wrapper fixes
• Cset exclude:
  marcelo@logos.cnet|ChangeSet|20050110190211|08215
• Fix expand_stack() SMP race
• Add missing Documentation/tty.txt from tty/ldisc locking
  updates
• Completly remove old do_brk() fix
• Linus Torvalds: Create helper for mmap_sem write-lock check in
  do_brk()
• Fix mmap.c typo

Mikael Pettersson:

• sungem UniNorth 2 GMAC support

Nathan Scott:

• [XFS] Add sanity checks before use of attr_multi opcount
  parameter

Pete Zaitcev:

• EHCI race fix

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

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<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()

Summary of changes from v2.4.29-pre2 to v2.4.29-pre3

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<baris:idealteknoloji.com>:

• Remove msleep() definitions from sx8.c and forcedeth.c: it is
  generic now

Andi Kleen:

• x86_64: fix signal restart bug
• [CAN-2004-1144] Fix int 0x80 hole in 2.4 x86-64 linux
  kernels

Andries E. Brouwer:

• do not use CONFIG_BLK_STATS

Chris Wright:

• a.out: error check on set_brk
• Backport of 2.6 fix to insert_vm_struct to make it return an
  error rather than BUG()

David S. Miller:

• [SPARC]: Adjust 32-bit ELF_ET_DYN_BASE

Geert Uytterhoeven:

• m68k: fix incorrect config comment in check_bugs() H. J.
  Lu:
• backport v2.6: Fix pty race condition

Ian Abbott:

• serial closing_wait and close_delay used from wrong data
  structure

Marcelo Tosatti:

• Solar Designer: Fix do_follow_link() comment
• Jason Baron: Backport v2.6 tty/ldisc locking fixes
• Move msleep() from libata-compat.h to generic headers
• Cset exclude: akpm@osdl.org|ChangeSet|20041218001750|00972
• Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre3
• Cset exclude:
  trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no|ChangeSet|20040521160141|29598
• Fix NFS hang on unlink problems: cset exclude:
  trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no|ChangeSet|20041110174036|20706

Simon Horman:

• binfmt_elf force_sig arguments fix

Solar Designer:

• Fix booting off USB CD-ROMs (do_mounts.c)
• binfmt_elf fix return error codes and early corrupt binary
  detection
• procfs enhanced error reporting
• sysctl: block bogus argument earlier
• stronger (paranoic) mremap argument checking

Stephen Hemminger:

• [TCP]: Missing newline character in printk
• [PKT_SCHED]: netem: restart device after inserting packets

Thomas Graf:

• [PKT_SCHED]: Fix double locking in tcindex destroy path

Summary of changes from v2.4.29-pre1 to v2.4.29-pre2

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<alexn:dsv.su.se>:

• Correct /dev/mptctl major number in Configure.help

<nboullis:debian.org>:

• [SPARC64]: Add SMB_IOC_GETMOUNTUID32 to compat ioctl table

<tv:lio96.de>:

• VM documentation fix: vm_anon_lru default is 0

Adrian Bunk:

• remove bouncing email address of Deanna Bonds
• add missing SCSI_SATA_AHCI Configure.help entry
• USB_ETH{,_RNDIS} EXPERIMENTAL dependencies
• let SCSI_SATA_NV depend on EXPERIMENTAL
• Update email address of Philip Blundell
• update email address of Andrea Arcangeli

Cal Peake:

• remove obsolete PIIX config help

Chris Wright:

• proc_tty.c warning fix
• [IPV4/IPV6]: IGMP source filter fixes

Christoph Hellwig:

• [XFS] handle nfs requesting ino 0 gracefully
• [XFS] fix handling of bad inodes
• [XFS] remove useless S_ISREG check in ->mmap and
  ->mprotect
• [XFS] split pagebuf_get, use get/read_flags correctly
• [XFS] Fix declaration of _pagebuf_find to not be static
• [XFS] handle inode creation race
• [XFS] call the right function in pagebuf_readahead

David Brownell:

• usb gadget updates: core
• usb gadget updates: ether/rndis
• usb gadget updates: Minor update to handle more hardware

David S. Miller:

• [SPARC64]: Update defconfig
• [SPARC64]: Fix SMP cpu bringup bug when bigkernel
• [IPV4]: Do not leak IP options
• [NET]: CMSG compat code needs signedness fixes too

Dean Roehrich:

• [XFS] Need to vn_revalidate after dm_set_fileattr
• [XFS] update a copyright notice

Douglas Gilbert:

• off-by-1 libata-scsi INQUIRY VPD pages 0x80 and 0x83

Eric Sandeen:

• [XFS] Wait for all async buffers to complete before tearing
  down the filesystem at umount time

Geoffrey Wehrman:

• [XFS] Add xfs_rotorstep sysctl for controlling placement of
  extents for new files by the inode32 allocator.

Herbert Xu:

• [NET]: Fix CMSG validation checks wrt. signedness

Ingo Molnar:

• floppy boot-time detection fix

Jakub Bogusz:

• don’t recursively crash in die() on CHRP/PReP machines

Jeff Garzik:

• [libata docs] add chapter on libata driver API
• [libata] only DMA map data for DMA commands (fix >=4GB
  bug)

Jon Krueger:

• [XFS] Allow the option of skipping quotacheck processing

Len Brown:

• [ACPI] acpi=off must disable acpi_early_init()

Luca Tettamanti:

• radeonfb: don’t try to ioreamp the entire VRAM
• Add new PCI id to radeonfb

Marcelo Tosatti:

• Cset exclude:
  vince@arm.linux.org.uk|ChangeSet|20041125151649|65331
• backport v2.6 fork/thread file descriptor race fix
• p8022 unregister packet type on unload
• Make sure VC resizing fits in s16
• psnap correctly unregister on module exit
• Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre2

Nathan Scott:

• [XFS] Fix incorrect use of do_div on realtime device growfs
  code path
• [XFS] Fix some locking oddities in extended attributes code
  (ilock excl vs shared).
• [XFS] Convert to list_foreachentry_safe
  form in reclaim list walk
• [XFS] Ensure bytes read statistic is not updated when the
  generic routines fail.
• [XFS] Add nosymlinks inode flag for the security folks, reserve
  projinherit flag.
• [XFS] Update XFS quota header – add macros, use standard gpl
  template
• [XFS] Make xfssyncd more generic, hand off out-of-space
  flushing to it; fixes two deadlocks when near-full and fixes a
  4KSTACKS problem in XFS.
• [XFS] Remove crufty old cap/mac code – never used, never
  compiled, gone
• [XFS] Fix merge botch affecting xfs_setattr for realtime
  files
• [XFS] Simplify page probe/submit code so buffers bayond eof not
  dirtied/written.
• [XFS] Remove unused function prototypes

Randy Dunlap:

• Fix unresolved symbol on x86-64: export swiotlb

Solar Designer:

• [TCP]: Missing KERN_* in input path printks

Stephen Hemminger:

• [UDP]: Select handling of bad checksums

Timothy Shimmin:

• [XFS] xfs reservation issues with xlog_sync roundoff

Wensong Zhang:

• [IPVS] add a sysctl variable to expire quiescent template

Summary of changes from v2.4.28 to v2.4.29-pre1

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

• via82cxxx audio procfs code selection fix

<edward_peng:alphanetworks.com>:

• dl2k: correct author’s email

<lnville:tuxdriver.com>:

• [VLAN]: change_mtu should return 0 on success

<manfred99:gmx.ch>:

• [DECNET]: dn_neigh.c needs linux/module.h
• [ATM]: Force -n option in gzip invocation
• Tigran Aivazian: backport sigmatch() issue in microcode.c

<mjagdis:eris-associates.co.uk>:

• Mike Jagdis CREDITS email address change

<vince:arm.linux.org.uk>:

• vga16fb: Fix frame buffer bad memory mapping

Adrian Bunk:

• remove outdated Stallion contact information

Andrea Arcangeli:

• Lazily add anonymous pages to LRU

Andries E. Brouwer:

• backport v2.6 largefile isofs fix

Barry K. Nathan:

• Fix ELF exec with huge bss
• binfmt_elf.c fix for 32-bit apps with large bss

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz:

• REQUEST_SENSE support for ATAPI
• [libata] arbitrary size ATAPI PIO support
• arbitrary size ATAPI PIO support bugfixes
• make ATAPI PIO work
• libata PIO bugfix

Chris Wright:

• /proc/tty/driver/serial reveals the exact number of characters
  used in serial links (CAN-2003-0461)

Christoph Hellwig:

• fix sata_svw compile

Dave Kleikamp:

• JFS: Fix extent overflow bugs
• JFS: avoid assert in lbmfree
• JFS: Fix endian errors
• JFS: fix race in jfs_commit_inode

David S. Miller:

• [TCP]: Receive buffer moderation fixes
• [NETLINK]: sed ‘s/->sk_/->//’ in af_netlink.c

Ganesh Venkatesan:

• e1000: Update Documentation/networking/e1000.txt
• e1000: fix set_pauseparam for fiber serdes link
• e1000: remove unused function e1000_enablemngpass_thru
• e1000: fix set ringparam for ethtool returning error
• e1000: driver version update
• e1000: white space corrections
• e100: Update to Configure.help
• e1000: Update to Configure.help

Herbert Xu:

• [NETLINK]: Backport pid hashing changes from 2.6
• [NETLINK]: Invoke netlink_proto_init() correctly in non-modular
  case

Jan Kara:

• Configurable quota messages

Jean Delvare:

• I2C updates for 2.4.28 (1/5)
• I2C updates: i2c proc parser fix
• I2C updates: hardcoded buffer size should depend on define
• I2C updates: lack trailing newline in logs
• I2C updates: get rid of unused code

Jeff Garzik:

• [netdrvr dl2k] new TX scheme, fix minor bug
• [netdrvr dl2k] remove unused constant ‘CFI’
• [libata] add AHCI driver
• [libata] fix minor 2.6 backport problems
• [libata] return ENOTTY rather than EOPNOTSUPP for
  unknown-ioctl
• [libata] use kunmap_atomic() correctly
• [libata] cosmetic: make syncing with 2.6 easier
• [libata] add ssleep() function
• [libata ahci] bump version to 1.00
• Add nth_page() helper
• Resync linux/ata.h with 2.6.x
• Remove silly comment from linux/ata.h
• [libata] remove dependence on PCI (2.4 stub version)
• [libata] bump versions, add MODULE_VERSION() tags
• [libata] fix DocBook bugs
• [libata ahci] minor fixes

Jeremy Higdon:

• per-port LED control for sata_vsc

John W. Linville:

• 3c59x: resync with 2.6

Len Brown:

• [ACPI] BIOS workaround allowing devices to use reserved IO
  ports Author: David Shaohua Li http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3049

Manfred Spraul:

• Backport of the 0.30 forcedeth driver to 2.4. It’s a new
  backport, starting from the 2.6 tree.

Marcelo Tosatti:

• O.Sezer: cpqphp_pci.c size warning fix
• Cset exclude:
  m.c.p@kernel.linux-systeme.com|ChangeSet|20041122173550|59288
• Marc-Christian Petersen: VM documentation update
• Ignore vma’s with PageReserved pages at get_user_pages()
• Andrea: get_userpages handle ZEROPAGE
  PG_reserved page, BUG otherwise
• Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre1
• fix get_user_pages() change typo

Mark Lord:

• Export ata_scsi_simulate() for use by non-libata drivers

Matthijs Melchior:

• [libata ahci] fix rather serious (and/or embarassing) bugs

Meelis Roos:

• ata.h undefined types in USB

Mikael Pettersson:

• gcc34 fastcall mismatch fixes for rwsem-spinlock

Mike Kravetz:

• Task name handling static copy v2.6 backport

Nishanth Aravamudan:

• scsi/ahci: replace schedule_timeout() with
  msleep()/ssleep()

Pete Zaitcev:

• USB: fix ohci_complete_add
• USB: ohci fix by Jes&Pete for Jessie

Ralf Bächle:

• MIPS update
• MIPS: sound drivers for AMD Alchemy platforms
• MIPS: Configure.help updates
• MIPS: MAINTAINERS update
• MIPS documentation

Randy Dunlap:

• oops on boot when initializing CDROM

Solar Designer:

• Fix SCSI tape driver return code
• Fix 32-bit syscall emulation waste of CPU resources

Tobias Lorenz:

• [libata sata_promise] s/sata/ata/

Tony Battersby:

• sym53c8xx_2 error handler fix
• sym53c8xx_2 sniff inquiry fix
• sym53c8xx_2 Ultra 160 requires LVD
• make SCSI error handler preserve data transfer residual
• fix for scsi_unjam_host: Miscount of number of failed
  commands
• fix race condition in sg.c

Özkan Sezer:

• ricoh.h, mem0 wrong definition v2.6 backport
• Wilfried Weissmann: hptraid v0.03 from -ac/redhat – minor
  fixes
• DAC960 firmware/alpha backport from 2.6
• Cure ISDN eicon size warning
• OPTI Viper-M/N+ chipset support (by Michael Mueller)
• hamradio scc warning type fix
• intermezzo, backport some fixes from 2.6
• intermezzo, backport some more fixes from 2.6
• intermezzo, fixes from cvs
• Mark InterMezzo as orphan
• ide-scsi update from ac/rh: Added transform for reading ATAPI
  tape drive block limits