Marcelo Tosatti: Linux 2.4.30-pre1

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Hi,

Here goes v2.4.30-pre1.

It contains, amongst others, a SATA update, series of networking
bug fixes, and v2.6 hardening backports.

Please read the changelog for detailed information.

(this is the second announcement I’m sending because I haven’t
seen the first one hit LKML).

Summary of changes from v2.4.29 to v2.4.30-pre1

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<akeptner:sgi.com>:

• [TG3]: Always copy receive packets when 5701 PCIX workaround
  enabled

<albertcc:tw.ibm.com>:

• [libata] SCSI-to-ATA translation fixes

<fli:ati.com>:

• [libata sata_sil] support ATI IXP300/IXP400 SATA

<james4765:cwazy.co.uk>:

• lcd: Add checks to CAP_SYS_ADMIN to potentially dangerous
  ioctl’s
• lcd: fix memory leak in lcd_ioctl()

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

• SATA AHCI support for Intel ICH7R

<jpaana:s2.org>:

• [libata sata_promise] add PCI ID for new SATAII TX2 card

<krzysztof.h1:wp.pl>:

• [SPARC]: Fix asm constraints in muldiv.c

<mark.haigh:spirentcom.com>:

• sym53c8xx.c: Add ULL suffix to fix warning
• arch/i386/kernel/pci-irq.c: Wrong message output

<mkrikis:yahoo.com>:

• fix an oops in ata_to_sense_error
• libata: fix ata_piix on ICH6R in RAID mode

<npollitt:mvista.com>:

• Configure mangles hex values

<syntax:pa.net>:

• [libata sata_sil] add another Seagate drive to blacklist

Adrian Bunk:

• scsi/ahci.c: remove an unused function

Andrew Chew:

• sata_nv: enable generic class support for future NVIDIA
  SATA

Brett Russ:

• [libata scsi] verify cmd bug fixes/support

Chris Wright:

• Fix potential leak of kernel data to user space in wireless
  private handler helper

David S. Miller:

• [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate
• [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate
• [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate
• [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate
• [SPARC64]: __atomic_{add,sub}() must sign-extend return
  value
• [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate
• [SPARC64]: atomic and bitop fixes
• [SPARC64]: Add missing membars for xchg() and cmpxchg()
• [SPARC64]: Add missing membars for xchg() and cmpxchg()
• [SPARC64]: Mask off stack ptr in alloc_user_space() for
  32-bit
• [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate

Ernie Petrides:

• fix for memory corruption from /proc/kcore access

Grant Grundler:

• [TG3]: Clean up grc_local_ctrl usage

Haroldo Gamal:

• [libata sata_sil] add another Seagate driver to blacklist

Heinz J. Mauelshagen:

• fix panics while backing up LVM snapshots

Herbert Xu:

• [NET]: Add missing memory barrier to kfree_skb()
• [NET]: Add barriers for dst refcnt

Jean Delvare:

• PCI: Kill duplicate definition of INTEL_82801DB_10
• I2C updates: The “bit” and “pcf” i2c algorithms should declare
  themselves fully I2C capable
• I2C updates: small header cleanups
• I2C updates: Document that the “id” member of the i2c_client
  structure was discarded in Linux 2.6

Jeff Garzik:

• [libata] add DMA blacklist
• [libata] Remove CDROM drive from PATA DMA blacklist
• [libata sata_promise] support Promise SATAII TX2/TX4 cards
• [libata ahci] Add support for ULi M5288

Len Brown:

• [ACPI] via interrupt quirk fix from 2.6 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3319

Luca Tettamanti:

• Fix MSF overflow in ide-cd with multisession DVDs

Marcelo Tosatti:

• Karsten Keil: Eicon Diva PCI 2.02 bugfix
• Cset exclude:
  temnota@kmv.ru|ChangeSet|20050119161632|63236
• Ake Sandgren: Fix RLIMIT_RSS madvise calculation bug
• Cset exclude:
  dan@embeddedalley.com|ChangeSet|20050128083257|00819
• Hugh Dickins: remove rlim_rss and this RLIMIT_RSS code from
  madvise. Presumably the code crept in by mistake
• Changed VERSION to 2.4.30-pre1
• Linus Torvalds: backport 2.6 rw_verify_area() to check against
  file offset overflows
• Linus Torvalds: Add extra debugging help for bad user
  accesses
• Solar Designer: missing f_maxcount initialization
• Cset exclude:
  Mark.Haigh@spirentcom.com|ChangeSet|20050203152306|59941
• rw_verify_area() cleanup
• Cset exclude:
  alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk|ChangeSet|20050209150113|54411

Matthew Wilcox:

• [IPV4]: ipconfig should use memmove() instead of strcpy()

Michael Chan:

• [TG3]: add tg3_set_eeprom()
• [TG3]: Fix TSO for 5750
• [TG3]: 5750 fixes
• [TG3]: 5704 serdes fixes

Michal Ostrowski:

• [MAINTAINERS]: Fix my email address in PPPOE entry

Patrick McHardy:

• [IPV4]: Keep fragment queues private to each user
• [NETFILTER]: Fix ip_fw_compat.c build after IP_DEFRAG_*
  changes

Paul Clements:

• nbd: fix ioctl permissions

Pete Zaitcev:

• USB: Prevent hiddev from looping
• USB: Workarounds for Genesys Logics
• [libata] fix probe object allocation bugs

Rogier Wolff:

• Rogier Wolff: fix nbd ioctl permissions

Stephen Hemminger:

• [PKT_SCHED]: netem: memory leak

Thomas Graf:

• [NET]: Set NLM_F_MULTI for neighbour rtnetlink messages to
  userspace
• [PKT_SCHED]: Fix ingress qdisc to pick up IPv6 packets when
  using netfilter hooks
• [NETLINK]: Use SKB_MAXORDER to calculate NLMSG_GOODSIZE

Tom Rini:

• ppc32: Fix a problem with the TLB Miss handler