Hi,
After a long time, here comes the third -pre of v2.4.33.
Mostly security related fixes, as usual.
Note: The mprotect issue, ID CVE-2006-1524, has changed to
CVE-2006-2071.
Summary of changes from v2.4.33-pre2 to v2.4.33-pre3
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Andi Kleen:
x86_64: Check for bad elf entry address.
Always check that RIPs are canonical during signal handling
x86-64: Always check that RIPs are canonical during signal handling (update)
i386/x86-64: Fix x87 information leak between processes
Craig Brind:
via-rhine: zero pad short packets on Rhine I ethernet cards
David S. Miller:
ip_queue: Fix wrong skb->len == nlmsg_len assumption
Hugh Dickins:
fix shm mprotect (CVE-2006-1524)
Jeff Layton:
2.4 nfs cache consistency problem with mmap'ed files
Jesse Brandeburg:
build fix: auto_fs4 changes broke ppc64 build
Marcelo Tosatti:
Merge http://w.ods.org/kernel/2.4/linux-2.4-upstream
Change VERSION to v2.4.33-pre3
Fix printk length modifier of NFS mmap consistency patch
Marek Szuba:
quota_v2 module taints the kernel (missing licence)
Marin Mitov:
DRM: drm_stub_open() range checking
Mika Kukkonen:
VLAN: Add two missing checks to vlan_ioctl_handler()
Pavel Kankovsky:
Fix small information leak in SO_ORIGINAL_DST and getname()
Stefan-W. Hahn:
Corrected faulty syntax in drivers/input/Config.in
Stephen Rothwell:
PPC64: fix sys_rt_sigreturn() return type
Willy TARREAU:
e1000: Fix mii-tool access to setting speed and duplex