Linux 2.6.16.56

Linux 2.6.16.56

[Adrian Bunk]

Security fixes since 2.6.16.55:
- CVE-2007-3739: Don't allow the stack to grow into hugetlb reserved regions
- CVE-2007-4133: hugetlb: fix prio_tree unit


Location:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/

git tree:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git

RSS feed of the git tree:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git;a=rss


Changes since 2.6.16.55:

Adam Litke (1):
      Don't allow the stack to grow into hugetlb reserved regions (CVE-2007-3739)

Adrian Bunk (4):
      drivers/video/macmodes.c:mac_find_mode() mustn't be __init
      Linux 2.6.16.56-rc1
      Linux 2.6.16.56-rc2
      Linux 2.6.16.56

Andreas Arens (1):
      DVB: get_dvb_firmware: update script for new location of tda10046 firmware

Arthur Othieno (1):
      hugetlbfs: add Kconfig help text

David Gibson (1):
      hugetlb: check for brk() entering a hugepage region

David S. Miller (2):
      [NET]: Zero length write() on socket should not simply return 0.
      [SPARC64]: Fix bugs in SYSV IPC handling in 64-bit processes.

Hugh Dickins (3):
      hugetlb: fix prio_tree unit (CVE-2007-4133)
      hugetlb: fix error return for brk() entering a hugepage region
      hugetlb: fix size=4G parsing

Ilpo Järvinen (2):
      [PKT_SCHED] RED: Fix overflow in calculation of queue average
      [TCP]: Fix fastpath_cnt_hint when GSO skb is partially ACKed

Jan Altenberg (1):
      m68knommu: ptrace.h typo fix

Ken Chen (2):
      x86: HUGETLBFS and DEBUG_PAGEALLOC are incompatible
      [IA64] fix ia64 is_hugepage_only_range

Kumar Gala (1):
      [POWERPC] Fix handling of stfiwx math emulation

Michael Krufky (1):
      DVB: get_dvb_firmware: update script for new location of sp8870 firmware

Mike Frysinger (1):
      alpha: fix epoll syscall enumerations

Randy Dunlap (1):
      hugetlbfs doc. update

Stephen Hemminger (1):
      [PKT_SCHED] cls_u32: error code isn't been propogated properly

Stephen Smalley (1):
      SELinux: clear parent death signal on SID transitions

Ulrich Drepper (1):
      make UML compile (FC6/x86-64)

Zhang Yanmin (1):
      [IA64] lazy_mmu_prot_update needs to be aware of huge pages


 Documentation/dvb/get_dvb_firmware |   26 +++++++++++++-------------
 Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt   |   20 ++++++++++----------
 Makefile                           |    2 +-
 arch/i386/Kconfig.debug            |    2 +-
 arch/ia64/mm/hugetlbpage.c         |    7 +++----
 arch/ia64/mm/init.c                |    8 +++++++-
 arch/ppc/math-emu/math.c           |   13 +++++++++----
 arch/sparc64/kernel/sys_sparc.c    |   15 ++++-----------
 arch/um/include/kern_util.h        |    1 -
 arch/um/sys-x86_64/stub_segv.c     |    1 -
 drivers/video/macmodes.c           |    4 ++--
 fs/Kconfig                         |    6 ++++++
 fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c               |   25 +++++++++++--------------
 include/asm-alpha/unistd.h         |   11 ++++++++---
 include/asm-ia64/page.h            |    2 +-
 include/asm-m68knommu/ptrace.h     |    2 +-
 include/net/red.h                  |    2 +-
 mm/mmap.c                          |   10 ++++++++++
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c               |    3 +++
 net/sched/cls_u32.c                |    2 +-
 net/socket.c                       |    2 --
 security/selinux/hooks.c           |    3 +++
 22 files changed, 95 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-)