Linux 2.6.25.10

Linux 2.6.25.10

[Greg KH]

We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.25.10
kernel.

It contains a number of assorted bugfixes all over the tree.  And once
again, any users of the 2.6.25 kernel series are STRONGLY encouraged to
upgrade to this release.

I'll also be replying to this message with a copy of the patch between
2.6.25.9 and 2.6.25.10

The updated 2.6.25.y git tree can be found at:
        git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git
and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser:
        http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git;a=summary

thanks,

greg k-h

-------------

 Makefile                                    |    2 
 arch/x86/kernel/i387.c                      |    4 -
 arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c                    |   45 +++++++------
 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot_64.c                |    1 
 drivers/char/drm/i915_drv.c                 |    1 
 drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_memfree.c |    6 +
 drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c                |    2 
 drivers/net/hamradio/mkiss.c                |    8 +-
 drivers/net/irda/irtty-sir.c                |    4 -
 drivers/net/ppp_async.c                     |    3 
 drivers/net/ppp_synctty.c                   |    3 
 drivers/net/slip.c                          |   14 +++-
 drivers/net/wan/x25_asy.c                   |   10 ++-
 drivers/net/wireless/strip.c                |    3 
 include/asm-x86/msr.h                       |    2 
 kernel/futex.c                              |   93 +++++++++++++++++++++-------
 kernel/sched.c                              |    1 
 17 files changed, 147 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)


Alan Cox (1):
      TTY: fix for tty operations bugs

Dmitry Adamushko (1):
      sched: fix cpu hotplug

Eli Cohen (1):
      IB/mthca: Clear ICM pages before handing to FW

Greg Kroah-Hartman (1):
      Linux 2.6.25.10

Jie Luo (1):
      DRM: enable bus mastering on i915 at resume time

Max Asbock (1):
      x86: shift bits the right way in native_read_tscp

Roland McGrath (1):
      x86_64 ptrace: fix sys32_ptrace task_struct leak

TAKADA Yoshihito (1):
      ptrace GET/SET FPXREGS broken

Thomas Gleixner (1):
      futexes: fix fault handling in futex_lock_pi

Yanmin Zhang (1):
      x86: fix cpu hotplug crash

Re: Linux 2.6.25.10

[Greg KH]

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 3eb71f8..e26eb7d 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 VERSION = 2
 PATCHLEVEL = 6
 SUBLEVEL = 25
-EXTRAVERSION = .9
+EXTRAVERSION = .10
 NAME = Funky Weasel is Jiggy wit it
 
 # *DOCUMENTATION*
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c b/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c
index d2e39e6..5f04579 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ int xfpregs_get(struct task_struct *target, const struct user_regset *regset,
 		void *kbuf, void __user *ubuf)
 {
 	if (!cpu_has_fxsr)
-		return -ENODEV;
+		return -EIO;
 
 	init_fpu(target);
 
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ int xfpregs_set(struct task_struct *target, const struct user_regset *regset,
 	int ret;
 
 	if (!cpu_has_fxsr)
-		return -ENODEV;
+		return -EIO;
 
 	init_fpu(target);
 	set_stopped_child_used_math(target);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
index 9003e0b..a10ba65 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -1309,42 +1309,49 @@ asmlinkage long sys32_ptrace(long request, u32 pid, u32 addr, u32 data)
 		break;
 
 	case PTRACE_GETREGS:	/* Get all gp regs from the child. */
-		return copy_regset_to_user(child, &user_x86_32_view,
-					   REGSET_GENERAL,
-					   0, sizeof(struct user_regs_struct32),
-					   datap);
+		ret = copy_regset_to_user(child, &user_x86_32_view,
+					  REGSET_GENERAL,
+					  0, sizeof(struct user_regs_struct32),
+					  datap);
+		break;
 
 	case PTRACE_SETREGS:	/* Set all gp regs in the child. */
-		return copy_regset_from_user(child, &user_x86_32_view,
-					     REGSET_GENERAL, 0,
-					     sizeof(struct user_regs_struct32),
-					     datap);
+		ret = copy_regset_from_user(child, &user_x86_32_view,
+					    REGSET_GENERAL, 0,
+					    sizeof(struct user_regs_struct32),
+					    datap);
+		break;
 
 	case PTRACE_GETFPREGS:	/* Get the child FPU state. */
-		return copy_regset_to_user(child, &user_x86_32_view,
-					   REGSET_FP, 0,
-					   sizeof(struct user_i387_ia32_struct),
-					   datap);
+		ret = copy_regset_to_user(child, &user_x86_32_view,
+					  REGSET_FP, 0,
+					  sizeof(struct user_i387_ia32_struct),
+					  datap);
+		break;
 
 	case PTRACE_SETFPREGS:	/* Set the child FPU state. */
-		return copy_regset_from_user(
+		ret = copy_regset_from_user(
 			child, &user_x86_32_view, REGSET_FP,
 			0, sizeof(struct user_i387_ia32_struct), datap);
+		break;
 
 	case PTRACE_GETFPXREGS:	/* Get the child extended FPU state. */
-		return copy_regset_to_user(child, &user_x86_32_view,
-					   REGSET_XFP, 0,
-					   sizeof(struct user32_fxsr_struct),
-					   datap);
+		ret = copy_regset_to_user(child, &user_x86_32_view,
+					  REGSET_XFP, 0,
+					  sizeof(struct user32_fxsr_struct),
+					  datap);
+		break;
 
 	case PTRACE_SETFPXREGS:	/* Set the child extended FPU state. */
-		return copy_regset_from_user(child, &user_x86_32_view,
+		ret = copy_regset_from_user(child, &user_x86_32_view,
 					     REGSET_XFP, 0,
 					     sizeof(struct user32_fxsr_struct),
 					     datap);
+		break;
 
 	default:
-		return compat_ptrace_request(child, request, addr, data);
+		ret = compat_ptrace_request(child, request, addr, data);
+		break;
 	}
 
  out:
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot_64.c
index 0880f2c..7b768e3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot_64.c
@@ -704,7 +704,6 @@ do_rest:
 		clear_bit(cpu, (unsigned long *)&cpu_initialized); /* was set by cpu_init() */
 		clear_node_cpumask(cpu); /* was set by numa_add_cpu */
 		cpu_clear(cpu, cpu_present_map);
-		cpu_clear(cpu, cpu_possible_map);
 		per_cpu(x86_cpu_to_apicid, cpu) = BAD_APICID;
 		return -EIO;
 	}
diff --git a/drivers/char/drm/i915_drv.c b/drivers/char/drm/i915_drv.c
index b2b451d..becab51 100644
--- a/drivers/char/drm/i915_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/char/drm/i915_drv.c
@@ -385,6 +385,7 @@ static int i915_resume(struct drm_device *dev)
 	pci_restore_state(dev->pdev);
 	if (pci_enable_device(dev->pdev))
 		return -1;
+	pci_set_master(dev->pdev);
 
 	pci_write_config_byte(dev->pdev, LBB, dev_priv->saveLBB);
 
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_memfree.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_memfree.c
index 252db08..0b92d3e 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_memfree.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_memfree.c
@@ -109,7 +109,11 @@ static int mthca_alloc_icm_pages(struct scatterlist *mem, int order, gfp_t gfp_m
 {
 	struct page *page;
 
-	page = alloc_pages(gfp_mask, order);
+	/*
+	 * Use __GFP_ZERO because buggy firmware assumes ICM pages are
+	 * cleared, and subtle failures are seen if they aren't.
+	 */
+	page = alloc_pages(gfp_mask | __GFP_ZERO, order);
 	if (!page)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c b/drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c
index 0a9b751..756e1bb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hamradio/6pack.c
@@ -601,6 +601,8 @@ static int sixpack_open(struct tty_struct *tty)
 
 	if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
 		return -EPERM;
+	if (!tty->driver->write)
+		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
 	dev = alloc_netdev(sizeof(struct sixpack), "sp%d", sp_setup);
 	if (!dev) {
diff --git a/drivers/net/hamradio/mkiss.c b/drivers/net/hamradio/mkiss.c
index 30c9b3b..f650da3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hamradio/mkiss.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hamradio/mkiss.c
@@ -529,6 +529,7 @@ static void ax_encaps(struct net_device *dev, unsigned char *icp, int len)
 static int ax_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	struct mkiss *ax = netdev_priv(dev);
+	int cib = 0;
 
 	if (!netif_running(dev))  {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "mkiss: %s: xmit call when iface is down\n", dev->name);
@@ -544,10 +545,11 @@ static int ax_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 			/* 20 sec timeout not reached */
 			return 1;
 		}
+		if (ax->tty->driver->chars_in_buffer)
+			cib = ax->tty->driver->chars_in_buffer(ax->tty);
 
 		printk(KERN_ERR "mkiss: %s: transmit timed out, %s?\n", dev->name,
-		       (ax->tty->driver->chars_in_buffer(ax->tty) || ax->xleft) ?
-		       "bad line quality" : "driver error");
+		     cib || ax->xleft ? "bad line quality" : "driver error");
 
 		ax->xleft = 0;
 		clear_bit(TTY_DO_WRITE_WAKEUP, &ax->tty->flags);
@@ -736,6 +738,8 @@ static int mkiss_open(struct tty_struct *tty)
 
 	if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
 		return -EPERM;
+	if (!tty->driver->write)
+		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
 	dev = alloc_netdev(sizeof(struct mkiss), "ax%d", ax_setup);
 	if (!dev) {
diff --git a/drivers/net/irda/irtty-sir.c b/drivers/net/irda/irtty-sir.c
index fc753d7..df755f5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/irda/irtty-sir.c
+++ b/drivers/net/irda/irtty-sir.c
@@ -64,7 +64,9 @@ static int irtty_chars_in_buffer(struct sir_dev *dev)
 	IRDA_ASSERT(priv != NULL, return -1;);
 	IRDA_ASSERT(priv->magic == IRTTY_MAGIC, return -1;);
 
-	return priv->tty->driver->chars_in_buffer(priv->tty);
+	if (priv->tty->driver->chars_in_buffer)
+		return priv->tty->driver->chars_in_buffer(priv->tty);
+	return 0;
 }
 
 /* Wait (sleep) until underlaying hardware finished transmission
diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp_async.c b/drivers/net/ppp_async.c
index f023d5b..098bf44 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ppp_async.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ppp_async.c
@@ -158,6 +158,9 @@ ppp_asynctty_open(struct tty_struct *tty)
 	struct asyncppp *ap;
 	int err;
 
+	if (!tty->driver->write)
+		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
 	err = -ENOMEM;
 	ap = kzalloc(sizeof(*ap), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!ap)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp_synctty.c b/drivers/net/ppp_synctty.c
index 0d80fa5..7372938 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ppp_synctty.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ppp_synctty.c
@@ -207,6 +207,9 @@ ppp_sync_open(struct tty_struct *tty)
 	struct syncppp *ap;
 	int err;
 
+	if (!tty->driver->write)
+		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
 	ap = kzalloc(sizeof(*ap), GFP_KERNEL);
 	err = -ENOMEM;
 	if (!ap)
diff --git a/drivers/net/slip.c b/drivers/net/slip.c
index 5a55ede..9d138bf 100644
--- a/drivers/net/slip.c
+++ b/drivers/net/slip.c
@@ -460,10 +460,14 @@ static void sl_tx_timeout(struct net_device *dev)
 			/* 20 sec timeout not reached */
 			goto out;
 		}
-		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: transmit timed out, %s?\n",
-			dev->name,
-			(sl->tty->driver->chars_in_buffer(sl->tty) || sl->xleft) ?
-				"bad line quality" : "driver error");
+		{
+			int cib = 0;
+			if (sl->tty->driver->chars_in_buffer)
+				cib = sl->tty->driver->chars_in_buffer(sl->tty);
+			printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: transmit timed out, %s?\n",
+				dev->name, (cib || sl->xleft) ?
+				       "bad line quality" : "driver error");
+		}
 		sl->xleft = 0;
 		sl->tty->flags &= ~(1 << TTY_DO_WRITE_WAKEUP);
 		sl_unlock(sl);
@@ -829,6 +833,8 @@ static int slip_open(struct tty_struct *tty)
 
 	if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
 		return -EPERM;
+	if (!tty->driver->write)
+		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
 	/* RTnetlink lock is misused here to serialize concurrent
 	   opens of slip channels. There are better ways, but it is
diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/x25_asy.c b/drivers/net/wan/x25_asy.c
index 0f8aca8..f5b9a71 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wan/x25_asy.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wan/x25_asy.c
@@ -283,6 +283,10 @@ static void x25_asy_write_wakeup(struct tty_struct *tty)
 static void x25_asy_timeout(struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	struct x25_asy *sl = (struct x25_asy*)(dev->priv);
+	int cib = 0;
+
+	if (sl->tty->driver->chars_in_buffer)
+		cib = sl->tty->driver->chars_in_buffer(sl->tty);
 
 	spin_lock(&sl->lock);
 	if (netif_queue_stopped(dev)) {
@@ -290,8 +294,7 @@ static void x25_asy_timeout(struct net_device *dev)
 		 *      14 Oct 1994 Dmitry Gorodchanin.
 		 */
 		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: transmit timed out, %s?\n", dev->name,
-		       (sl->tty->driver->chars_in_buffer(sl->tty) || sl->xleft) ?
-		       "bad line quality" : "driver error");
+		       (cib || sl->xleft) ? "bad line quality" : "driver error");
 		sl->xleft = 0;
 		sl->tty->flags &= ~(1 << TTY_DO_WRITE_WAKEUP);
 		x25_asy_unlock(sl);
@@ -561,6 +564,9 @@ static int x25_asy_open_tty(struct tty_struct *tty)
 		return -EEXIST;
 	}
 
+	if (!tty->driver->write)
+		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+
 	/* OK.  Find a free X.25 channel to use. */
 	if ((sl = x25_asy_alloc()) == NULL) {
 		return -ENFILE;
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/strip.c b/drivers/net/wireless/strip.c
index 88efe1b..5536a94 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/strip.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/strip.c
@@ -802,7 +802,8 @@ static void set_baud(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned int baudcode)
 	struct ktermios old_termios = *(tty->termios);
 	tty->termios->c_cflag &= ~CBAUD;	/* Clear the old baud setting */
 	tty->termios->c_cflag |= baudcode;	/* Set the new baud setting */
-	tty->driver->set_termios(tty, &old_termios);
+	if (tty->driver->set_termios)
+		tty->driver->set_termios(tty, &old_termios);
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/include/asm-x86/msr.h b/include/asm-x86/msr.h
index 3ca29eb..84a15b6 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86/msr.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/msr.h
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ static inline unsigned long long native_read_tscp(unsigned int *aux)
 	unsigned long low, high;
 	asm volatile (".byte 0x0f,0x01,0xf9"
 		      : "=a" (low), "=d" (high), "=c" (*aux));
-	return low | ((u64)high >> 32);
+	return low | ((u64)high << 32);
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index e43945e..cc6fd0d 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -1118,21 +1118,64 @@ static void unqueue_me_pi(struct futex_q *q)
  * private futexes.
  */
 static int fixup_pi_state_owner(u32 __user *uaddr, struct futex_q *q,
-				struct task_struct *newowner)
+				struct task_struct *newowner,
+				struct rw_semaphore *fshared)
 {
 	u32 newtid = task_pid_vnr(newowner) | FUTEX_WAITERS;
 	struct futex_pi_state *pi_state = q->pi_state;
+	struct task_struct *oldowner = pi_state->owner;
 	u32 uval, curval, newval;
-	int ret;
+	int ret, attempt = 0;
 
 	/* Owner died? */
+	if (!pi_state->owner)
+		newtid |= FUTEX_OWNER_DIED;
+
+	/*
+	 * We are here either because we stole the rtmutex from the
+	 * pending owner or we are the pending owner which failed to
+	 * get the rtmutex. We have to replace the pending owner TID
+	 * in the user space variable. This must be atomic as we have
+	 * to preserve the owner died bit here.
+	 *
+	 * Note: We write the user space value _before_ changing the
+	 * pi_state because we can fault here. Imagine swapped out
+	 * pages or a fork, which was running right before we acquired
+	 * mmap_sem, that marked all the anonymous memory readonly for
+	 * cow.
+	 *
+	 * Modifying pi_state _before_ the user space value would
+	 * leave the pi_state in an inconsistent state when we fault
+	 * here, because we need to drop the hash bucket lock to
+	 * handle the fault. This might be observed in the PID check
+	 * in lookup_pi_state.
+	 */
+retry:
+	if (get_futex_value_locked(&uval, uaddr))
+		goto handle_fault;
+
+	while (1) {
+		newval = (uval & FUTEX_OWNER_DIED) | newtid;
+
+		curval = cmpxchg_futex_value_locked(uaddr, uval, newval);
+
+		if (curval == -EFAULT)
+			goto handle_fault;
+		if (curval == uval)
+			break;
+		uval = curval;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * We fixed up user space. Now we need to fix the pi_state
+	 * itself.
+	 */
 	if (pi_state->owner != NULL) {
 		spin_lock_irq(&pi_state->owner->pi_lock);
 		WARN_ON(list_empty(&pi_state->list));
 		list_del_init(&pi_state->list);
 		spin_unlock_irq(&pi_state->owner->pi_lock);
-	} else
-		newtid |= FUTEX_OWNER_DIED;
+	}
 
 	pi_state->owner = newowner;
 
@@ -1140,26 +1183,35 @@ static int fixup_pi_state_owner(u32 __user *uaddr, struct futex_q *q,
 	WARN_ON(!list_empty(&pi_state->list));
 	list_add(&pi_state->list, &newowner->pi_state_list);
 	spin_unlock_irq(&newowner->pi_lock);
+	return 0;
 
 	/*
-	 * We own it, so we have to replace the pending owner
-	 * TID. This must be atomic as we have preserve the
-	 * owner died bit here.
+	 * To handle the page fault we need to drop the hash bucket
+	 * lock here. That gives the other task (either the pending
+	 * owner itself or the task which stole the rtmutex) the
+	 * chance to try the fixup of the pi_state. So once we are
+	 * back from handling the fault we need to check the pi_state
+	 * after reacquiring the hash bucket lock and before trying to
+	 * do another fixup. When the fixup has been done already we
+	 * simply return.
 	 */
-	ret = get_futex_value_locked(&uval, uaddr);
+handle_fault:
+	spin_unlock(q->lock_ptr);
 
-	while (!ret) {
-		newval = (uval & FUTEX_OWNER_DIED) | newtid;
+	ret = futex_handle_fault((unsigned long)uaddr, fshared, attempt++);
 
-		curval = cmpxchg_futex_value_locked(uaddr, uval, newval);
+	spin_lock(q->lock_ptr);
 
-		if (curval == -EFAULT)
-			ret = -EFAULT;
-		if (curval == uval)
-			break;
-		uval = curval;
-	}
-	return ret;
+	/*
+	 * Check if someone else fixed it for us:
+	 */
+	if (pi_state->owner != oldowner)
+		return 0;
+
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
+	goto retry;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -1524,7 +1576,7 @@ static int futex_lock_pi(u32 __user *uaddr, struct rw_semaphore *fshared,
 		 * that case:
 		 */
 		if (q.pi_state->owner != curr)
-			ret = fixup_pi_state_owner(uaddr, &q, curr);
+			ret = fixup_pi_state_owner(uaddr, &q, curr, fshared);
 	} else {
 		/*
 		 * Catch the rare case, where the lock was released
@@ -1556,7 +1608,8 @@ static int futex_lock_pi(u32 __user *uaddr, struct rw_semaphore *fshared,
 				int res;
 
 				owner = rt_mutex_owner(&q.pi_state->pi_mutex);
-				res = fixup_pi_state_owner(uaddr, &q, owner);
+				res = fixup_pi_state_owner(uaddr, &q, owner,
+							   fshared);
 
 				/* propagate -EFAULT, if the fixup failed */
 				if (res)
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 1e4596c..c54077c 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -5728,6 +5728,7 @@ static void migrate_dead_tasks(unsigned int dead_cpu)
 		next = pick_next_task(rq, rq->curr);
 		if (!next)
 			break;
+		next->sched_class->put_prev_task(rq, next);
 		migrate_dead(dead_cpu, next);
 
 	}

Re: Linux 2.6.25.10

[Bart Van Assche]

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.25.10
> kernel.
>
> It contains a number of assorted bugfixes all over the tree.  And once
> again, any users of the 2.6.25 kernel series are STRONGLY encouraged to
> upgrade to this release.

Hello Greg,

Thanks for all the work you and the stable team are doing on the
stable series. To me the above message is a little bit cryptic however
-- which bugs have been fixed, and what was their impact ? I know it
takes time to write down such information, sometimes called release
notes. But I think including this information with the announcements
of the stable releases would be a great service to the people reading
these announcements.

Bart.

Re: Linux 2.6.25.10

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 07:08:48PM +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> > We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.25.10
> > kernel.
> >
> > It contains a number of assorted bugfixes all over the tree.  And once
> > again, any users of the 2.6.25 kernel series are STRONGLY encouraged to
> > upgrade to this release.
> 
> Hello Greg,
> 
> Thanks for all the work you and the stable team are doing on the
> stable series. To me the above message is a little bit cryptic however
> -- which bugs have been fixed, and what was their impact ? I know it
> takes time to write down such information, sometimes called release
> notes. But I think including this information with the announcements
> of the stable releases would be a great service to the people reading
> these announcements.

The release notes are there in the shortlog in the email announcement
and full Changelog on the kernel.org site for exactly what specifically
was fixed:
	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25.10

If you have any specific questions about any of the individual changes,
please let us, and the developers who made those fixes know.

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: Linux 2.6.25.10

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 10:29:14AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 07:08:48PM +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> > > We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.25.10
> > > kernel.
> > >
> > > It contains a number of assorted bugfixes all over the tree.  And once
> > > again, any users of the 2.6.25 kernel series are STRONGLY encouraged to
> > > upgrade to this release.
> > 
> > Hello Greg,
> > 
> > Thanks for all the work you and the stable team are doing on the
> > stable series. To me the above message is a little bit cryptic however
> > -- which bugs have been fixed, and what was their impact ? I know it
> > takes time to write down such information, sometimes called release
> > notes. But I think including this information with the announcements
> > of the stable releases would be a great service to the people reading
> > these announcements.
> 
> The release notes are there in the shortlog in the email announcement
> and full Changelog on the kernel.org site for exactly what specifically
> was fixed:
> 	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25.10
> 
> If you have any specific questions about any of the individual changes,
> please let us, and the developers who made those fixes know.

Adding 2 more addresses to this thread, as they were said to have
questions about this kernel release.

Again, if the above information is somehow insufficient as to what
exactly is fixed in the -stable releases, and anyone has questions about
how these release announcements are created, please let me know.

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: Linux 2.6.25.10

[pageexec]

[spender's asked to be off the CC]

On 3 Jul 2008 at 11:57, Greg KH wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 10:29:14AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> Adding 2 more addresses to this thread, as they were said to have
> questions about this kernel release.

not only this one, but every commit for the past few years that fixed
bugs with security impact. for reference:

http://lwn.net/Articles/285438/
http://lwn.net/Articles/286263/
http://lwn.net/Articles/287339/
http://lwn.net/Articles/288473/

> Again, if the above information is somehow insufficient as to what
> exactly is fixed in the -stable releases, and anyone has questions about
> how these release announcements are created, please let me know.

what is the disclosure policy used for commits fixing bugs with security
impact (both vanilla and -stable, especially if there's a difference)?

what do you include/omit?

how does it relate to what is declared in Documentation/SecurityBugs?

Re: Linux 2.6.25.10

[Chris Rankin]

> Again, if the above information is somehow insufficient as to what
> exactly is fixed in the -stable releases, and anyone has questions about
> how these release announcements are created, please let me know.

Well, for example:

I have only machines with 32 bit CPUS, none of them is hot-pluggable and none has an i915 graphics chip. All my local users are "trusted", nor am I running any multi-threaded Java applications on SMP systems. (I also have no idea what ICM pages are, but they sound jolly impressive!)

And what is "native_read_tscp" all about?

So why am I being "STRONGLY encouraged to upgrade to this release"? (Your emphasis.) Is it because otherwise you're going to sneak up and burn my house down?

Cheers,
Chris



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Re: Linux 2.6.25.10

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 04:42:01PM -0700, Chris Rankin wrote:
> > Again, if the above information is somehow insufficient as to what
> > exactly is fixed in the -stable releases, and anyone has questions about
> > how these release announcements are created, please let me know.
> 
> Well, for example:
> 
> I have only machines with 32 bit CPUS, none of them is hot-pluggable

All cpus these days can be "virtually" hotplugged :)

> and none has an i915 graphics chip. All my local users are "trusted",
> nor am I running any multi-threaded Java applications on SMP systems.
> (I also have no idea what ICM pages are, but they sound jolly
> impressive!)
> 
> And what is "native_read_tscp" all about?

Ask the developer who did that.

> So why am I being "STRONGLY encouraged to upgrade to this release"?
> (Your emphasis.) Is it because otherwise you're going to sneak up and
> burn my house down?

Fixing an ABI breakage that you could hit might be a good thing for you
to have, as well as the other general fixes.

If you can read the changelog and see that you feel you can skip this
release, fine.  Otherwise, please upgrade.

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: Linux 2.6.25.10

[Nix]

On 4 Jul 2008, Chris Rankin stated:
> I have only machines with 32 bit CPUS, none of them is hot-pluggable
> and none has an i915 graphics chip. All my local users are "trusted",
> nor am I running any multi-threaded Java applications on SMP
> systems. (I also have no idea what ICM pages are, but they sound jolly
> impressive!)

A good clue here is to look at the subdirectories that were touched.
The ICM stuff says in the commit log

    IB/mthca: Clear ICM pages before handing to FW

and touches only files under drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca.

So if you don't use the InfiniBand driver, you're almost certainly safe
(and from what I understand of InfiniBand, if you're not running a huge
corporate SAN or something you're highly unlikely to be using it).

> And what is "native_read_tscp" all about?

>From the name I would have assumed something about networking with some
strangely-named protocol, but from the file being touched,
include/asm-x86/msr.h, it's something to do with x86 model-specific
registers. One function in that header calls it: `rdtscp()'. A grep -R
for `rdtscp' under arch/x86 indicates that there is a word in
/proc/cpuinfo devoted to indicating whether your CPU has this
feature. If it doesn't, the bug doesn't affect you.

>From the other hit, rdtscp()'s one call site, it seems to be some way to
get the current CPU fast on SMP x86-64 boxes.  So perhaps you should
upgrade if you have one of those.

Generally a bit of grepping and matching on pathnames like this is
enough to comprehensively rule most changes in or out as things that
affect you, and of course if there are changes to mm code or something
like that it's generally a good idea to upgrade anyway, because you
can't very well avoid using said code.

> (Your emphasis.) Is it because otherwise you're going to sneak up and
> burn my house down?

Greg would never do a thing like that without forewarning.

Re: Linux 2.6.25.10

[Stefan Roas]

On Thu Jul 03, 2008 at 16:42:01, Chris Rankin wrote:
> > Again, if the above information is somehow insufficient as to what
> > exactly is fixed in the -stable releases, and anyone has questions about
> > how these release announcements are created, please let me know.
> 
> Well, for example:
> 
> I have only machines with 32 bit CPUS, none of them is hot-pluggable and none has an i915 graphics chip. All my local users are "trusted", nor am I running any multi-threaded Java applications on SMP systems. (I also have no idea what ICM pages are, but they sound jolly impressive!)
> 
> And what is "native_read_tscp" all about?

To some degree I can understand that you are not sure of whether you are
affected or not. On the other hand you should probably be, when running
your own kernels on a productive system. After all there seems to be a
general agreement that distribution vendors take care of the stabilization
and bug fixing of their particular kernels. As far as I am
concerned, I'm grateful that there are these stable releases at all and I very
much consider it additional work for everyone in the release team. To that
end it should be your task to check whether the update affects you or not.

After all the releases are publicly announced on probably the busiest
mailing list on earth. That offers anyone the chance to add additional
information to the releases (there has been a discussion recently about
security implications that weren't mentioned in the announcement. Just
replying to the announcement will add the needed information, and as the
discussion showed, people actually do add information).

To sum all the above up: IMHO the announcements are great, the work of the
stable team is great and I wouldn't really want to push more work on the
people that voluntarily spend their time on this branch by explaining every
detail of every patch.

Just my 2 cents.

Best regards,
  Stefan

Re: Linux 2.6.25.10

[Bart Van Assche]

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> The release notes are there in the shortlog in the email announcement
> and full Changelog on the kernel.org site for exactly what specifically
> was fixed:
>        http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25.10
>
> If you have any specific questions about any of the individual changes,
> please let us, and the developers who made those fixes know.

Sometimes I have to backport bugfixes to older kernels. In that case
it's important to know in which kernel version the bug was introduced.
This info is included for some of the bugfix patches in the changelog,
but not for all.

Bart.

Re: Linux 2.6.25.10

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 09:54:22AM +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> > The release notes are there in the shortlog in the email announcement
> > and full Changelog on the kernel.org site for exactly what specifically
> > was fixed:
> >        http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25.10
> >
> > If you have any specific questions about any of the individual changes,
> > please let us, and the developers who made those fixes know.
> 
> Sometimes I have to backport bugfixes to older kernels. In that case
> it's important to know in which kernel version the bug was introduced.
> This info is included for some of the bugfix patches in the changelog,
> but not for all.

That's because sometimes no one digs through the code to find this out.
I would recommend using 'git blame' to determine this if it is something
that you need to have.

But for the most part, -stable doesn't really care about older kernel
versions, we have to draw the line somewhere, sorry.

thanks,

greg k-h