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Marcelo Tosatti: Linux 2.4.33-pre2

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 21, 2006

Hi,

Here goes the second -pre of v2.4.33, containing a small number
of changes.

Most notably three security corrections, and an overflow fix for
machines with large amounts of memory and inodes (which would cause
the system’s logic to reclaim inodes with highmem pages attached to
fail).

Please refer to the changelog for full details…

Summary of changes from v2.4.33-pre1 to v2.4.33-pre2


Adrian Bunk:
      document that gcc 4 is not
supported

dann frazier:
      proc_pid_cmdline() race fix
(CAN-2004-1058)

David S. Miller:
      [SPARC]: Fix compile failures
in math-emu.

Guennadi Liakhovetski:
      usb-uhci.c: wrong sign
comparison in status check

Horms:
      [PATCH, 2.4] wan sdla: fix
probable security hole
      orinoco: CVE-2005-3180:
Information leakage due to incorrect padding

Jacek Lipkowski:
      make 2.4.32 work on i486
again

Jesse Brandeburg:
      e1000: fix BUG reported due to
calling msec_delay in irq context

Marcelo Tosatti:
      Alpha: fix recursive inlining
failure in pci_iommu.c
      Merge
http://w.ods.org/kernel/2.4/linux-2.4-upstream
      Change VERSION to
2.4.33-pre2

ODonnell, Michael:
      PATCH: hash-table corruption in
bond_alb.c

Pete Zaitcev:
      usbserial: using int for CPU
flags is incorrect on x86_64

Rik van Riel:
      fix overflow in inode.c

Steven J. Hathaway:
      SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-140 fails on
DMA

Vincent Fortier:
      Documentation error 2.4.x
aic7xxx

Willy Tarreau:
      Merge branch ‘master’ of
/data/projets/git/linux/linux-2.4
      Merge branch ‘master’ of
/data/projets/git/linux/linux-2.4

Web Webster

Web Webster

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