Linux v2.4.33-rc3 (and a new v2.4 maintainer)

Linux v2.4.33-rc3 (and a new v2.4 maintainer)

[Marcelo Tosatti]

Hi,

Here goes the third (and hopefully last) release candidate of v2.4.33.

It contains a fix for CVE-2006-2935 (locally exploitable typo in DVD
code), ethtool oopses and an ext3 block bitmap leakage issue.

Willy Tarreau has stepped up to maintain the mainline v2.4 tree, and
will do so starting from v2.4.34.

He has devoted great effort to help maintenance for the past few years.
His -hotfix tree is quite popular amongst v2.4 users, for instance.

I feel very confident in his competence for the job, knowing his good
common sense and great technical/communication skills.

Thanks Willy!


Summary of changes from v2.4.33-rc2 to v2.4.33-rc3
============================================

Andreas Haumer:
      [PATCH-2.4] Typo in cdrom.c

Kirill Korotaev:
      EXT3: ext3 block bitmap leakage

Marcelo Tosatti:
      Change VERSION to 2.4.33-rc3

Willy Tarreau:
      ethtool: two oopses in ethtool_set_coalesce() and ethtool_set_pauseparam()

Re: Linux v2.4.33-rc3 (and a new v2.4 maintainer)

[Bill Davidsen]

Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here goes the third (and hopefully last) release candidate of v2.4.33.
> 
> It contains a fix for CVE-2006-2935 (locally exploitable typo in DVD
> code), ethtool oopses and an ext3 block bitmap leakage issue.
> 
> Willy Tarreau has stepped up to maintain the mainline v2.4 tree, and
> will do so starting from v2.4.34.
> 
> He has devoted great effort to help maintenance for the past few years.
> His -hotfix tree is quite popular amongst v2.4 users, for instance.
> 
> I feel very confident in his competence for the job, knowing his good
> common sense and great technical/communication skills.

Thanks to both of you, I know a number of people who are still on 2.4 
due to issues with the new development model, they all depend on you for 
stable kernel fixes.
> 
> Thanks Willy!
> 
> 
> Summary of changes from v2.4.33-rc2 to v2.4.33-rc3
> ============================================
> 
> Andreas Haumer:
>       [PATCH-2.4] Typo in cdrom.c
> 
> Kirill Korotaev:
>       EXT3: ext3 block bitmap leakage
> 
> Marcelo Tosatti:
>       Change VERSION to 2.4.33-rc3
> 
> Willy Tarreau:
>       ethtool: two oopses in ethtool_set_coalesce() and ethtool_set_pauseparam()
> 


-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
   Obscure bug of 2004: BASH BUFFER OVERFLOW - if bash is being run by a
normal user and is setuid root, with the "vi" line edit mode selected,
and the character set is "big5," an off-by-one errors occurs during
wildcard (glob) expansion.

Re: Linux v2.4.33-rc3 (and a new v2.4 maintainer)

[Willy Tarreau]

Hi Marcelo,

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 06:30:19PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
 
> Willy Tarreau has stepped up to maintain the mainline v2.4 tree, and
> will do so starting from v2.4.34.
> 
> He has devoted great effort to help maintenance for the past few years.
> His -hotfix tree is quite popular amongst v2.4 users, for instance.
> 
> I feel very confident in his competence for the job, knowing his good
> common sense and great technical/communication skills.
> 
> Thanks Willy!

Hmmm... Like I once told you, I felt like you were trying to sell me
your car, but you seem to have maintained it in very good state so I
am confident it will not break after a few miles. I still hope that
if I have any problem with it, you will come with your breakdown
truck to rescue me :-)

I hope I will get criticisms if I do things wrong. It's frustrating
to work without feedback (either positive or negative).

Best regards,
Willy

Re: Linux v2.4.33-rc3 (and a new v2.4 maintainer)

[Mikael Pettersson]

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:30:19 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>Here goes the third (and hopefully last) release candidate of v2.4.33.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/testing/patch-2.4.33-rc3.bz2
is only 854 bytes long, and once bunzip2:ed it looks like it's the
incremental diff between rc2 and rc3. Usually the full pre/rc patches
go in testing/ with the incrementals going into testing/incr/.

No big deal, but it would feel better with a proper -rc3 patch there.

/Mikael

Re: Linux v2.4.33-rc3 (and a new v2.4 maintainer)

[Grant Coady]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 04:16:42 +0200 (MEST), Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> wrote:

>On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:30:19 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>>Here goes the third (and hopefully last) release candidate of v2.4.33.
>
>http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/testing/patch-2.4.33-rc3.bz2
>is only 854 bytes long, and once bunzip2:ed it looks like it's the
>incremental diff between rc2 and rc3. Usually the full pre/rc patches
>go in testing/ with the incrementals going into testing/incr/.
>
>No big deal, but it would feel better with a proper -rc3 patch there.
>

Yeah, stuff happens ;)  

At the moment one needs 2.4.32 plus patches -rc2 and -rc3, like you 
say, very obvious from patch file sizes ;)

At least -rc3 goes okay on 7 of 7 test boxen here: 
  <http://bugsplatter.mine.nu/test/linux-2.4/>

Cheers,
Grant.

Re: Linux v2.4.33-rc3 (and a new v2.4 maintainer)

[Willy Tarreau]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 12:46:31PM +1000, Grant Coady wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 04:16:42 +0200 (MEST), Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:30:19 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> >>Here goes the third (and hopefully last) release candidate of v2.4.33.
> >
> >http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/testing/patch-2.4.33-rc3.bz2
> >is only 854 bytes long, and once bunzip2:ed it looks like it's the
> >incremental diff between rc2 and rc3. Usually the full pre/rc patches
> >go in testing/ with the incrementals going into testing/incr/.
> >
> >No big deal, but it would feel better with a proper -rc3 patch there.
> >
> 
> Yeah, stuff happens ;)  

I will let Marcelo fix it.

> At the moment one needs 2.4.32 plus patches -rc2 and -rc3, like you 
> say, very obvious from patch file sizes ;)
> 
> At least -rc3 goes okay on 7 of 7 test boxen here: 
>   <http://bugsplatter.mine.nu/test/linux-2.4/>

Fine, thanks for the test, Grant. I expect to release hf32.7 soon, all
the patches are already waiting in the git tree. But I won't announce
a date anymore, everytime I did so I did not respect it at all.

> Cheers,
> Grant.

Cheers,
Willy

Re: Linux v2.4.33-rc3 (and a new v2.4 maintainer)

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 04:16:42AM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 18:30:19 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> >Here goes the third (and hopefully last) release candidate of v2.4.33.
> 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/testing/patch-2.4.33-rc3.bz2
> is only 854 bytes long, and once bunzip2:ed it looks like it's the
> incremental diff between rc2 and rc3. Usually the full pre/rc patches
> go in testing/ with the incrementals going into testing/incr/.
> 
> No big deal, but it would feel better with a proper -rc3 patch there.

Fixed, sorry.