2005-03-11 05:19:16

by Andres Salomon

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Subject: 2.6.10-as7

Hi,

2.6.10-as is now in purely maintenance mode; that is, I'll only include
security fixes or quick things that people send me (that don't require
much effort on my part :). This includes the security fix from
2.6.11.2. I'll have 2.6.11-as1 soon, after I sync up w/ Debian stuff
and go through about 800 more changesets. We'll see where 2.6.x.y goes
from there; if feeding patches is easy, then there won't be much need
for -as; otherwise, I'll continue doing it as a vendor base (at least
one person who does vendor kernels has expressed the opinion that they'd
prefer 2.6.x.y to be a bit more liberal than it currently is).

Also, note the email address; I'm trying to phase out usage of my
voxel.net address, as I no longer work there.


The -as tree is intended to include only security and bugfixes, from
various sources. I do not include hardware driver updates
(specifically, anything that changes how the hardware registers
themselves are probed/poked), large subsystem updates, cleanups, and so
on; only fixes that will not contain regressions. The hope is that
vendors/distributors can use this tree as a base for their kernels. It
is also what I'd want a 2.6.x.y tree to have.

The kernel patches can be grabbed from here:
http://www.acm.cs.rpi.edu/~dilinger/patches/2.6.10/as7/

86f79bd2e50963829da3c0456804df0f ChangeLog
e852090bafa5ea4ff7c6b922d33ec1e7 linux-2.6.10-as7.tar.gz
8ca1ac89c1eac2111f146cc21d6193c2 patch-2.6.10-as7.gz

Changes from 2.6.10-as6:

2005-03-10 21:51:49 GMT Andres Salomon <[email protected]> patch-155

Summary:
tag 2.6.10-as7
Revision:
linux--dilinger--0--patch-155




modified files:
000-extraversion.patch


2005-03-10 21:50:21 GMT Andres Salomon <[email protected]> patch-154

Summary:
144-sys_epoll_wait_int_overflow.patch
Revision:
linux--dilinger--0--patch-154

[SECURITY] sys_epoll_wait contains an integer overflow; see
http://seclists.org/lists/fulldisclosure/2005/Mar/0293.html for
additional
details.



new files:
.arch-ids/144-sys_epoll_wait_int_overflow.patch.id
144-sys_epoll_wait_int_overflow.patch


2005-03-10 21:46:21 GMT Andres Salomon <[email protected]> patch-153

Summary:
143-sysfs_write_file_signedness_problem.patch
Revision:
linux--dilinger--0--patch-153

[SYSFS] sysfs_write_file assigns the result of fill_write_buffer
(which is
signed and returns negative upon error) to an unsigned int.
Clearly, bad
and wrong..


new files:
.arch-ids/143-sysfs_write_file_signedness_problem.patch.id
143-sysfs_write_file_signedness_problem.patch


--
Andres Salomon <[email protected]>


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