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
============================================
<akeptner:sgi.com>:
o [TG3]: Always copy receive packets when 5701 PCIX workaround enabled
<albertcc:tw.ibm.com>:
o [libata] SCSI-to-ATA translation fixes
<fli:ati.com>:
o [libata sata_sil] support ATI IXP300/IXP400 SATA
<james4765:cwazy.co.uk>:
o lcd: Add checks to CAP_SYS_ADMIN to potentially dangerous ioctl's
o lcd: fix memory leak in lcd_ioctl()
<jason.d.gaston:intel.com>:
o SATA AHCI support for Intel ICH7R
<jpaana:s2.org>:
o [libata sata_promise] add PCI ID for new SATAII TX2 card
<krzysztof.h1:wp.pl>:
o [SPARC]: Fix asm constraints in muldiv.c
<mark.haigh:spirentcom.com>:
o sym53c8xx.c: Add ULL suffix to fix warning
o arch/i386/kernel/pci-irq.c: Wrong message output
<mkrikis:yahoo.com>:
o fix an oops in ata_to_sense_error
o libata: fix ata_piix on ICH6R in RAID mode
<npollitt:mvista.com>:
o Configure mangles hex values
<syntax:pa.net>:
o [libata sata_sil] add another Seagate drive to blacklist
Adrian Bunk:
o scsi/ahci.c: remove an unused function
Andrew Chew:
o sata_nv: enable generic class support for future NVIDIA SATA
Brett Russ:
o [libata scsi] verify cmd bug fixes/support
Chris Wright:
o Fix potential leak of kernel data to user space in wireless private handler helper
David S. Miller:
o [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate
o [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate
o [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate
o [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate
o [SPARC64]: __atomic_{add,sub}() must sign-extend return value
o [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate
o [SPARC64]: atomic and bitop fixes
o [SPARC64]: Add missing membars for xchg() and cmpxchg()
o [SPARC64]: Add missing membars for xchg() and cmpxchg()
o [SPARC64]: Mask off stack ptr in alloc_user_space() for 32-bit
o [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate
Ernie Petrides:
o fix for memory corruption from /proc/kcore access
Grant Grundler:
o [TG3]: Clean up grc_local_ctrl usage
Haroldo Gamal:
o [libata sata_sil] add another Seagate driver to blacklist
Heinz J. Mauelshagen:
o fix panics while backing up LVM snapshots
Herbert Xu:
o [NET]: Add missing memory barrier to kfree_skb()
o [NET]: Add barriers for dst refcnt
Jean Delvare:
o PCI: Kill duplicate definition of INTEL_82801DB_10
o I2C updates: The "bit" and "pcf" i2c algorithms should declare themselves fully I2C capable
o I2C updates: small header cleanups
o I2C updates: Document that the "id" member of the i2c_client structure was discarded in Linux 2.6
Jeff Garzik:
o [libata] add DMA blacklist
o [libata] Remove CDROM drive from PATA DMA blacklist
o [libata sata_promise] support Promise SATAII TX2/TX4 cards
o [libata ahci] Add support for ULi M5288
Len Brown:
o [ACPI] via interrupt quirk fix from 2.6 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3319
Luca Tettamanti:
o Fix MSF overflow in ide-cd with multisession DVDs
Marcelo Tosatti:
o Karsten Keil: Eicon Diva PCI 2.02 bugfix
o Cset exclude: [email protected]|ChangeSet|20050119161632|63236
o Ake Sandgren: Fix RLIMIT_RSS madvise calculation bug
o Cset exclude: [email protected]|ChangeSet|20050128083257|00819
o Hugh Dickins: remove rlim_rss and this RLIMIT_RSS code from madvise. Presumably the code crept in by mistake
o Changed VERSION to 2.4.30-pre1
o Linus Torvalds: backport 2.6 rw_verify_area() to check against file offset overflows
o Linus Torvalds: Add extra debugging help for bad user accesses
o Solar Designer: missing f_maxcount initialization
o Cset exclude: [email protected]|ChangeSet|20050203152306|59941
o rw_verify_area() cleanup
o Cset exclude: [email protected]|ChangeSet|20050209150113|54411
Matthew Wilcox:
o [IPV4]: ipconfig should use memmove() instead of strcpy()
Michael Chan:
o [TG3]: add tg3_set_eeprom()
o [TG3]: Fix TSO for 5750
o [TG3]: 5750 fixes
o [TG3]: 5704 serdes fixes
Michal Ostrowski:
o [MAINTAINERS]: Fix my email address in PPPOE entry
Patrick McHardy:
o [IPV4]: Keep fragment queues private to each user
o [NETFILTER]: Fix ip_fw_compat.c build after IP_DEFRAG_* changes
Paul Clements:
o nbd: fix ioctl permissions
Pete Zaitcev:
o USB: Prevent hiddev from looping
o USB: Workarounds for Genesys Logics
o [libata] fix probe object allocation bugs
Rogier Wolff:
o Rogier Wolff: fix nbd ioctl permissions
Stephen Hemminger:
o [PKT_SCHED]: netem: memory leak
Thomas Graf:
o [NET]: Set NLM_F_MULTI for neighbour rtnetlink messages to userspace
o [PKT_SCHED]: Fix ingress qdisc to pick up IPv6 packets when using netfilter hooks
o [NETLINK]: Use SKB_MAXORDER to calculate NLMSG_GOODSIZE
Tom Rini:
o ppc32: Fix a problem with the TLB Miss handler