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-stable: Linux 2.6.18.3

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 20, 2006

We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.18.3
kernel.

The diffstat and short summary of the fixes are below.

I’ll also be replying to this message with a copy of the patch
between 2.6.18.2 and 2.6.18.3, as it is small enough to do so.

The updated 2.6.18.y git tree can be found at:
      
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.18.y.git
and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser:
       www.kernel.org/git/

thanks,
-chris


Makefile | 2 +-
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c | 3 +–
arch/i386/pci/irq.c | 4 ++–
arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c | 18 ++++++++++——–
arch/ppc/kernel/traps.c | 18 ++++++++++——–
arch/s390/lib/uaccess.S | 10 +++++—–
arch/s390/lib/uaccess64.S | 2 +-
arch/sparc/kernel/entry.S | 3 +–
arch/sparc64/kernel/entry.S | 3 +–
arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c | 7 +++—-
block/scsi_ioctl.c | 2 +-
drivers/block/cciss.c | 6 ++++++
drivers/block/cpqarray.c | 15 +++++++++++—-
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 2 +-
drivers/char/isicom.c | 3 ++-
drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c | 8 +++++—
drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c | 7 +++++++
drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c | 3 +++
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c | 1 +
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c | 4 ++–
drivers/usb/input/hid-input.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
drivers/usb/input/hid.h | 1 +
drivers/usb/input/usbtouchscreen.c | 2 +-
drivers/video/nvidia/nv_hw.c | 12 +++++++++—
drivers/video/nvidia/nv_setup.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
drivers/video/nvidia/nv_type.h | 1 +
drivers/video/nvidia/nvidia.c | 24 ++++++++++++————
fs/cifs/CHANGES | 6 +++++-
fs/cifs/file.c | 3 ++-
fs/cifs/inode.c | 14 +++++++++—–
include/asm-sparc/unistd.h | 2 ++
include/asm-sparc64/futex.h | 18 ++++++++———-
include/asm-sparc64/unistd.h | 2 ++
include/linux/ufs_fs.h | 2 +-
mm/migrate.c | 3 ++-
mm/slab.c | 2 +-
net/core/skbuff.c | 1 +
net/core/sock.c | 2 +-
net/ipv4/tcp.c | 4 ++–
security/seclvl.c | 2 ++

40 files changed, 170 insertions(+), 87 deletions(-)

Summary of changes from v2.6.18.2 to v2.6.18.3


Adrian Bunk:
      security/seclvl.c: fix time
wrap (CVE-2005-4352)

Andi Kleen:
      x86_64: Fix FPU corruption

Auke Kok:
      e1000: Fix regression: garbled
stats and irq allocation during swsusp

Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
      POWERPC: Make alignment
exception always check exception table

Chris Wright:
      Linux 2.6.18.3

Daniel Ritz:
      usbtouchscreen: use endpoint
address from endpoint descriptor
      fix via586 irq routing for pirq
5

Daniel Yeisley:
      init_reap_node() initialization
fix

Dave Jones:
      CPUFREQ: Make acpi-cpufreq
unsticky again.

David Miller:
      SPARC64: Fix
futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic implementation.
      SPARC: Fix missed bump of
NR_SYSCALLS.
      NET: __alloc_pages() failures
reported due to fragmentation
      pci: don’t try to remove sysfs
files before they are setup.

Eric Sandeen:
      fix UFS superblock alignment
issues

Herbert Xu:
      NET: Set truesize in
pskb_copy

Jens Axboe:
      block: Fix bad data direction
in SG_IO
      cpqarray: fix iostat
      cciss: fix iostat

Jiri Slaby:
      Char: isicom, fix close bug

John Heffner:
      TCP: Don’t use highmem in tcp
hash size calculation.

Martin Schwidefsky:
      S390: user readable
uninitialised kernel memory, take 2.

Olaf Hering:
      correct keymapping on Powerbook
built-in USB ISO keyboards

Oliver Neukum:
      USB: failure in usblp’s error
path

Sergey Vlasov:
      Input: psmouse – fix attribute
access on 64-bit systems

Stephen Rothwell:
      Fix sys_move_pages when a NULL
node list is passed.

Steve French:
      CIFS: report rename failure
when target file is locked by Windows
      CIFS: New POSIX locking code
not setting rc properly to zero on successful

Wink Saville:
      Patch for nvidia divide by zero
error for 7600 pci-express card

Yvan Seth:
      ipmi_si_intf.c sets bad
class_mask with PCI_DEVICE_CLASS

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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