Linux 2.4.18

Linux 2.4.18

[Marcelo Tosatti]

Hi, 

Finally, 2.4.18. No changes between it and -rc4.


final:

- No changes have been made between -final 
  and -rc4.

rc4:

- Load code did not set personality for
  binaries without an interpreter: This was 
  breaking static apps on several archs		(Tom Gall)

rc3: 

- Fix reiserfs endianess problems		(Chris Mason) 
- Fix PowerMac compilation problem 		(Pmac team)
- Fix some eepro100 ID's which had problems 
  in -ac merge					(Jeff Garzik)
- Rename some internal pcnet32 definitions to
  not clash with ethtool.h - the clash caused 
  the driver not work correctly			(William Lee Irwin)
- Add missing netif_carrier_{on,off} to
  eepro100					(Andrew Morton)
- Fix netfilter race				(Rusty Russell)
- Correct error handling on tcp_recvmsg		(Alexey Kuznetsov)
- Revert tulip changes which were apparently
  causing slowdowns				(Jeff Garzik) 
- Fix ptrace behaviour				(Linus Benedict Torvalds)

rc2: 

- Make get_user_pages handle VM_IO areas
  gracefully					(Manfred Spraul)
- Fix SMP race on PID allocation		(Erik A. Hendriks)
- Fix SMP race on dnotify scheme		(Alexander Viro)
- Add missing checks to shmem_file_write	(Alan Cox)

rc1: 
- PPC MPC8260 update				(Tom Rini)
- eepro100 fixes				(Jeff Garzik)
- Make natsemi hardware workaround a config 
  option					(Jeff Garzik)
- Add serial board PCI ID			(Jeff Garzik)
- Add support for another tulip clone		(Jeff Garzik)
- Fix typo in winbond driver			(Jeff Garzik)
- Move initialization of tridentfb before 
  the generic drivers				(Geert Uytterhoeven)
- Reiserfs bugfixes				(Oleg Drokin)
- More __devexit_p assorted fixes		(Andrew Morton)
- Merge some -ac bugfixes			(Alan Cox)

pre9:

- Cris update					(Bjorn Wesen)
- SPARC update					(David S. Miller)
- Remove duplicate CONFIG_SUNLANCE entry in 
  Config.in					(David S. Miller)
- Change Netfilter maintainer 			(David S. Miller)
- More SunGEM bugfixes				(David S. Miller)
- Update md5sums in ISDN's md5sums.asc		(Kai Germaschewski)
- 3ware driver update				(Adam Radford)
- Fix cosa compile problem			(Adrian Bunk)
- Change VIA "disabling write queue" message	(Oliver Feiler)
- Remove buggy Elan-specific handling code	(Robert Schwebel)
- Reiserfs bugfixes				(Oleg Drokin)
- Fix ppp memory leak				(Andrew Morton)
- Really add devfs fix for removable devices: 
  its on pre8 changelog but not on pre8 patch	(me)
- Add framebuffer support for trident graphics
  card						(James Simmons)
- SCSI tape driver bugfixes			(Kai Makisara)
- Add support to Ovislink card on 8139too
  driver					(Jeff Garzik)
- Add SIOCxMIIxxxx ioctls for better binary 
  compatibility on au1000_eth driver		(Jeff Garzik)
- Fix initialization of phy on epic100 driver	(Jeff Garzik)
- Add MODULE_* info to mii.c 			(Jeff Garzik)
- Add new PCI ID to sundance driver		(Jeff Garzik)
- Merge some -ac3 patches			(Alan Cox)
- Unify simple_strtol symbol export		(Russell King)
- Add amount of cached memory to sysreq-m 
  output					(Martin Knoblauch)
- Do not use SCSI device type to change
  IO clustering					(Jens Axboe)
- IRC conntrack update				(Harald Welte)
- sonypi driver update				(Stelian Pop)
- Fix one of the PPP deadlocks			(Manfred Spraul)

pre8: 

- Add missing netfilter files in pre7 		(David S. Miller)
- SunGEM driver update				(David S. Miller)
- Kill get_fast_time				(David S. Miller)
- Update APIC LVTERR fix to work correctly on 
  old 486/586 APICs				(Mikael Pettersson)
- Check the return code of copy_{from,to}_user
  on serial code				(Rasmus Andersen)
- Mark 2.5 extended attributes system calls as 
  reserved to avoid potential conflicts		(Nathan Scott)
- Change Christoph Hellwig's email address	(Christoph Hellwig)
- Make BLKGETSIZE64 return size in bytes not 
  sectors					(Eric Sandeen)
- Coda dentry revalidation fix			(Jan Harkes)
- hisax_fcpcipnp driver update			(Kai Germaschewski)
- i810 sound driver update			(Doug Ledford)
- Early personality setting in binfmt_elf	(Christoph Hellwig)
- Fix rename bug in reiserfs			(Oleg Drokin)
- SCSI documentation update			(Douglas Gilbert)
- Fix silly typo in megaraid driver 		(Arjan Van de Ven)
- PPC update					(Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
- USB bug fixes					(Greg KH)
- Fix devfs problems with removable devices	(Richard Gooch)
- Merge -ac1 fixes				(Alan Cox)
- VXFS update					(Christoph Hellwig)
- Add Compaq FC array to the LUN whitelist	(Arjan Van de Ven) 

pre7:

- Make ext2/minix/sysvfs actually operate
  synchronously on directories when using
  the sync mount option				(Andrew Morton)
- AFFS update					(Roman Zippel)
- Fix 3dfx fb crash with high pixelclock 	(Jurriaan on Alpha)
- PATH_MAX POSIX compliance			(Rusty Russell)
- Really apply AMD Elan patch			(me)
- Don't drop IP packets with less than 8 bytes 
  of payload 					(David S. Miller)
- Netfilter update 				(Netfilter team)
- Backport 2.5 sb_bread() changes		(Alexander Viro)
- Fix AF_UNIX fd leak				(David S. Miller)
- Add Audigy Gameport PCI ID	 		(Daniel Bertrand)
- Sync with ia64 arch independant parts		(Keith Owens)
- APM fixes					(Stephen Rothwell)
- fs/super.c cleanups				(Alexander Viro)

pre6:

- Removed patch in icmp code: its
  not needed and causes problems                (me)

pre5:

- Include missing radeonfb defines		(Erik Andersen)
- Fix fs/buffer.c thinko introduced in pre4	(Andrew Morton)
- USB bugfixes					(Greg KH)
- Make fat work correctly with gcc-3.0.x 	(Tom Rini)
- Avoid overusage of the vmalloc area by 
  NTFS						(Anton Altaparmakov)
- atyfb: Decrease clock rate for 3d RAGE XL 	(David S. Miller)
- Sungem driver bugfixes			(David S. Miller)
- More networking updates			(David S. Miller)
- More SPARC updates				(David S. Miller)
- devfs update 					(Richard Gooch)
- Reiserfs expanding truncate fix		(Chris Mason)
- ext3 update					(Andrew Morton/Stephen Tweedie)
- Add support to WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT on several
  watchdog drivers				(Joel Becker)
- dl2k driver update				(Jeff Garzik)
- Orinoco driver update				(David Gibson)
- Radeonfb driver update			(Ani Joshi)
- Avoid free_swap_and_cache() from leaving 
  freeable pages on the cache			(Hugh Dickins)
- Add workarounds for AMD Elan processors	(Robert Schwebel)
- Random pmac driver bugfixing			(Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
- emu10k1 driver update				(Rui Sousa)

pre4:

- Networking updates				(David S. Miller)
- clgenfb update				(Jeff Garzik)
- 8139cp: make it faster			(Jeff Garzik)
- 8139too: fix bugs, add experimental RX reset	(Jeff Garzik)
- Add MII ethtool interface and change 
  several drivers to support that		(Jeff Garzik)
- Fix ramdisk corruption problems		(Andrea Arcangeli) 	
- Correct in-kernel MS_ASYNC behaviour 
  on msync/fsync()				(Andrew Morton)
- Fix PLIP problems 				(Niels Jensen)
- Fix problems triggered by the "fsx test" 
  on smbfs					(Urban Widmark)
- Turn on OOSTORE for IDT winchip		(from -ac tree)
- Fix iphase crash				(from -ac tree)
- Fix crash with two mxser cards		(from -ac tree)
- Fix tty write block bug			(from -ac tree)
- Add mono/stereo detect to gemtek pci radio	(from -ac tree)
- Fix sf16fmi crash on load			(from -ac tree)
- add CP1250 (windows eastern european) 
  translation table				(from -ac tree)
- cs46xx driver update				(from -ac tree)
- Fix rare data loss case with RAID-1		(Ingo Molnar)
- Add 2.5.x compatibility for the kdev_t
  changes					(me)
- SPARC updates					(David S. Miller)

pre3:

- Cris arch merge				(Bjorn Wesen)
- Finish PPC merge				(Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
- Add Dell PowerEdge 2400 to 
  "use BIOS to reboot" blacklist		(Arjan van de Ven)
- Avoid potential oops at module unload with 
  cyclades driver				(Andrew Morton)
- Gracefully handle SCSI initialization 
  failures					(Pete Zaitcev)
- USB update					(Greg KH)
- Fix potential oops while ejecting ide cds 	(Zwane Mwaikambo)
- Unify page freeing codepaths 			(Benjamin LaHaise)
- Miata dma corruption workaround 		(Richard Henderson)
- Fix vmalloc corruption problem on machines 
  with virtual dcaches				(Ralf Baechle)
- Reiserfs fixes				(Oleg Drokin)
- DiskOnChip driver update			(David Woodhouse)
- Do not inherit page locking rules across 
  fork/exec					(Dave Anderson)
- Add DRM 4.0 for XFree 4.0 users convenience	(Christoph Hellwig)
- Replace .text.lock with .subsection 		(Keith Owens)
- IrDA bugfixes					(Jean Tourrilhes)

pre2: 

- APIC LVTERR fixes				(Mikael Pettersson)
- Fix ppdev ioctl oops and deadlock		(Tim Waugh)
- parport fixes					(Tim Waugh)
- orinoco wireless driver update		(David Gibson)
- Fix oopsable race in binfmt_elf.c 		(Alexander Viro)
- Small sx16 driver bugfix			(Heinz-Ado Arnolds)
- sbp2 deadlock fix 				(Andrew Morton)
- Fix JFFS2 write error handling		(David Woodhouse)
- Intermezzo update				(Peter J. Braam)
- Proper AGP support for Intel 830MP chipsets	(Nicolas Aspert)
- Alpha fixes					(Jay Estabrook)
- 53c700 SCSI driver update			(James Bottomley)
- Fix coredump mmap_sem deadlock on IA64	(David Mosberger)
- 3ware driver update				(Adam Radford)
- Fix elevator insertion point on failed 
  request merge					(Jens Axboe)
- Remove bogus rpciod_tcp_dispatcher definition (David Woodhouse)
- Reiserfs fixes				(Oleg Drokin)
- de4x5 endianess fixes				(Kip Walker)
- ISDN CAPI cleanup				(Kai Germaschewski)
- Make refill_inactive() correctly account 
  progress					(me)

pre1:

- S390 merge					(IBM)
- SuperH merge					(SuperH team)
- PPC merge					(Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
- PCI DMA update				(David S. Miller)
- radeonfb update 				(Ani Joshi)
- aty128fb update				(Ani Joshi)
- Add nVidia GeForce3 support to rivafb		(Ani Joshi)
- Add PM support to opl3sa2			(Zwane Mwaikambo)
- Basic ethtool support for 3com, starfire
  and pcmcia net drivers			(Jeff Garzik)
- Add MII ethtool interface			(Jeff Garzik)
- starfire,sundance,dl2k,sis900,8139{too,cp},
  natsemi driver updates			(Jeff Garzik)
- ufs/minix: mark inodes as bad in case of read
  failure					(Christoph Hellwig)
- ReiserFS fixes				(Oleg Drokin)
- sonypi update					(Stelian Pop)
- n_hdlc update					(Paul Fulghum)
- Fix compile error on aty_base.c		(Tobias Ringstrom)
- Document cpu_to_xxxx() on kernel-hacking doc  (Rusty Russell)
- USB update					(Greg KH)
- Fix sysctl console loglevel bug on 
  IA64 (and possibly other archs)		(Jesper Juhl) 
- Update Athlon/VIA PCI quirks			(Calin A. Culianu)
- blkmtd update					(Simon Evans)
- boot protocol update (makes the highest 
  possible initrd address available to the 
  bootloader)					(H. Peter Anvin)
- NFS fixes					(Trond Myklebust)

Re: Linux 2.4.18

[Marcelo Tosatti]

Ok, DAMN. I missed the -rc4 patch in 2.4.18. Real sorry about that.

2.4.19-pre1 will contain it. 

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> 
> Hi, 
> 
> Finally, 2.4.18. No changes between it and -rc4.
> 
> 
> final:
> 
> - No changes have been made between -final 
>   and -rc4.
> 
> rc4:
> 
> - Load code did not set personality for
>   binaries without an interpreter: This was 
>   breaking static apps on several archs		(Tom Gall)

Re: Linux 2.4.18

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > 
> > Finally, 2.4.18. No changes between it and -rc4.
> > 
> > final:
> > 
> > - No changes have been made between -final 
> >   and -rc4.
> > 
> > rc4:
> > 
> > - Load code did not set personality for
> >   binaries without an interpreter: This was 
> >   breaking static apps on several archs		(Tom Gall)
> 
> Am I imagining it, or has this -rc4 fix gone missing in final?

Indeed you are right: The fix is missing. 

Re: Linux 2.4.18

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On 25 Feb 2002, Daniel Quinlan wrote:

> Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> writes:
> 
> > Ok, DAMN. I missed the -rc4 patch in 2.4.18. Real sorry about that.
> > 
> > 2.4.19-pre1 will contain it. 
> 
> Why not just immediately release 2.4.19 with only the -rc4 patch?
> There's no harm done in an extra release.

Its not critical enough I think.

Re: Linux 2.4.18

[Hugh Dickins]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
> Finally, 2.4.18. No changes between it and -rc4.
> 
> final:
> 
> - No changes have been made between -final 
>   and -rc4.
> 
> rc4:
> 
> - Load code did not set personality for
>   binaries without an interpreter: This was 
>   breaking static apps on several archs		(Tom Gall)

Am I imagining it, or has this -rc4 fix gone missing in final?

Hugh

Re: Linux 2.4.18

[Daniel Quinlan]

Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> writes:

> Ok, DAMN. I missed the -rc4 patch in 2.4.18. Real sorry about that.
> 
> 2.4.19-pre1 will contain it. 

Why not just immediately release 2.4.19 with only the -rc4 patch?
There's no harm done in an extra release.

Dan

Re: Linux 2.4.18 - Fixed?

[Justin Piszcz]

Looks like its fixed.

[root@war root]# cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.18
[root@war linux-2.4.18]# patch -p1 < ../linux-2.4.18
linux-2.4.18          linux-2.4.18.tar.bz2
[root@war linux-2.4.18]# patch -p1 < ../patch-2.4.18-rc4
patching file CREDITS
Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Assume -R? [n]

Re: Linux 2.4.18 - Fixed?

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 04:13:21PM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote:
 > Looks like its fixed.
 > 
 > [root@war root]# cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.18
 > [root@war linux-2.4.18]# patch -p1 < ../linux-2.4.18
 > linux-2.4.18          linux-2.4.18.tar.bz2
 > [root@war linux-2.4.18]# patch -p1 < ../patch-2.4.18-rc4
 > patching file CREDITS
 > Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Assume -R? [n]

 Only 1 chunk got dropped, not all of rc4.
 Check the rc4-final diff in testing/incr/ and apply with -R

-- 
| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs

Re: Linux 2.4.18 - Summary of what happened/how to fix.

[Justin Piszcz]

Dave- Thanks, I included that on my page.

http://installkernel.com/kernel/index.html

I hope I got the story right, and I hope this clears things up on 2.4.18.

Re: Linux 2.4.18

[Florian Weimer]

Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> writes:

> - Fix netfilter race				(Rusty Russell)
> - Correct error handling on tcp_recvmsg		(Alexey Kuznetsov)
> - Revert tulip changes which were apparently
>   causing slowdowns				(Jeff Garzik) 
> - Fix ptrace behaviour				(Linus Benedict Torvalds)

Are any of these relevant, security-wise?

(The shmem_file_write() fix by Alan Cox is indeed.)

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Re: Linux 2.4.18 - Don't get mad...

[Rainer Ellinger]

Justin Piszcz wrote:

> http://installkernel.com/kernel/index.html
> I hope I got the story right, and I hope this clears things up on 2.4.18.

That might be the most serious bug in this release: people and media reporting a "release problem".

How many people really need that small fix and are not able to take -rc4 instead final? Compared to 2.4.17, there are more than 
100 fixes in this release, that could have been more dangerous than this missing function. And there might be still people out 
there using 2.4.17 ;-)

-- 
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