Linux 2.6.20.5

Chris Wright
2007-04-06T18:44:38Z

We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.20.5 kernel.
It contains a number of important bugfixes including a fix for possible
remote DoS.

f8c08c340b83: APPLETALK: Fix a remotely triggerable crash [CVE-2007-1357]

The diffstat and short summary of the fixes are below.

I'll also be replying to this message with a copy of the patch between
2.6.20.4 and 2.6.20.5.

The updated 2.6.20.y git tree can be found at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.20.y.git
and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser:
www.kernel.org/git/

thanks,
-chris
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Makefile | 2
arch/um/include/sysdep-x86_64/ptrace.h | 4 -
arch/um/os-Linux/elf_aux.c | 3
arch/um/os-Linux/skas/mem.c | 10 ++-
arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c | 6 -
arch/um/os-Linux/sys-i386/registers.c | 5 -
arch/um/os-Linux/sys-x86_64/registers.c | 4 -
arch/um/sys-i386/delay.c | 11 ---
arch/um/sys-x86_64/delay.c | 11 ---
crypto/scatterwalk.c | 4 -
drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 11 +++
drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c | 1
drivers/ata/sata_mv.c | 31 +++++++---
drivers/ata/sata_nv.c | 10 +++
drivers/char/generic_serial.c | 7 --
drivers/ide/ide-cd.c | 15 ++--
drivers/ide/ide-io.c | 11 +++
drivers/ide/ide-iops.c | 9 ++
drivers/ide/ide.c | 1
drivers/ide/pci/jmicron.c | 29 +++++++--
drivers/ide/pci/piix.c | 67 +++++++++++++++-------
drivers/ieee1394/dv1394.c | 12 +--
drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dmxdev.c | 12 ---
drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_demux.c | 21 ++----
drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c | 9 --
drivers/media/dvb/frontends/isl6421.c | 1
drivers/media/dvb/frontends/nxt200x.c | 4 -
drivers/media/radio/Kconfig | 2
drivers/media/video/msp3400-driver.c | 4 -
drivers/media/video/saa7115.c | 2
drivers/message/i2o/i2o_block.c | 12 ---
drivers/net/ppp_generic.c | 3
drivers/video/ffb.c | 84 +++++++++++++++++++--------
fs/cifs/inode.c | 21 +++++-
fs/cifs/readdir.c | 4 +
include/asm-sparc/mostek.h | 2
include/asm-sparc64/mostek.h | 2
include/asm-um/common.lds.S | 1
include/asm-um/delay.h | 17 ++++-
include/linux/eventpoll.h | 7 ++
include/linux/ide.h | 2
include/media/saa7146_vv.h | 3
include/net/fib_rules.h | 1
include/net/ip6_fib.h | 1
net/appletalk/ddp.c | 7 +-
net/core/dev.c | 4 -
net/core/fib_rules.c | 30 +++++++++
net/dccp/proto.c | 4 -
net/decnet/dn_rules.c | 21 +++---
net/ipv4/fib_rules.c | 14 +---
net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c | 14 +---
net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c | 8 ++
net/ipv6/route.c | 97 +++++++++++++++++++-------------
net/sched/cls_basic.c | 16 ++---
net/socket.c | 7 +-
55 files changed, 446 insertions(+), 255 deletions(-)

Summary of changes from v2.6.20.4 to v2.6.20.5
==============================================

Al Viro (1):
FRA_{DST,SRC} are le16 for decnet

Alan Tyson (1):
CIFS: reset mode when client notices that ATTR_READONLY is no longer set

Albert Lee (2):
ide: clear bmdma status in ide_intr() for ICHx controllers (revised #4)
ide: remove clearing bmdma status from cdrom_decode_status() (rev #4)

Alexey Dobriyan (1):
NET: Fix sock_attach_fd() failure in sys_accept()

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (1):
DCCP: Fix exploitable hole in DCCP socket options

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (1):
ide: revert "ide: fix drive side 80c cable check, take 2" for now

Daniel Drake (1):
generic_serial: fix decoding of baud rate

David Miller (2):
IPV6: Fix ipv6 round-robin locking.
VIDEO: Fix FFB DAC revision probing

G. Liakhovetski (1):
PPP: Fix PPP skb leak

Greg Kroah-Hartman (1):
Linux 2.6.20.5

Hans Verkuil (1):
V4L: msp_attach must return 0 if no msp3400 was found.

J. Bruce Fields (1):
CRYPTO: api: scatterwalk_copychunks() fails to advance through scatterlist

Jean Delvare (1):
APPLETALK: Fix a remotely triggerable crash

Jeff Dike (4):
UML - fix epoll
UML - host VDSO fix
UML - Fix static linking
UML - use correct register file size everywhere

Jeff Garzik (2):
libata: sata_mv: don't touch reserved bits in EDMA config register
libata: sata_mv: Fix 50xx irq mask

Mark Lord (1):
libata bugfix: HDIO_DRIVE_TASK

Mauro Carvalho Chehab (1):
V4L: Fix SECAM handling on saa7115

Michael Krufky (1):
DVB: fix nxt200x rf input switching

Mikael Pettersson (1):
SPARC: Fix sparc builds with gcc-4.2.x

Oliver Endriss (1):
V4L: saa7146: Fix allocation of clipping memory

Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso (1):
uml: fix unreasonably long udelay

Patrick McHardy (2):
NET: Fix packet classidier NULL pointer OOPS
NET_SCHED: Fix ingress qdisc locking.

Robert Hancock (1):
sata_nv: delay on switching between NCQ and non-NCQ commands

Simon Arlott (1):
dvb-core: fix several locking related problems

Stefan Richter (1):
ieee1394: dv1394: fix CardBus card ejection

Steve French (1):
CIFS: Allow reset of file to ATTR_NORMAL when archive bit not set

Tejun Heo (2):
jmicron: make ide jmicron driver play nice with libata ones
libata: clear TF before IDENTIFYing

Thomas Graf (1):
NET: Fix FIB rules compatability

Thomas Viehweger (1):
DVB: isl6421: don't reference freed memory

Trent Piepho (1):
V4L: radio: Fix error in Kbuild file

Vasily Averin (1):
i2o: block IO errors on i2o disk