Re: Ptrace hole / Linux 2.2.25

James Bourne
2003-03-23T22:18:54Z

On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > I think this would be valuable .. the other thing that really needs to
> > be present is a "common vendor" kernel where changes that are common
> > to most distros are merged (eg O(1) scheduler, etc). Personally, I think
> > that's what mainline should be doing ... but if other people disagree,
> > then I, at least, would see value in a separate tree to do this.
>
> akpm has suggested something like this in the past. I respectfully
> disagree.

I also disagree. Although it would be nice, it's not practical. What
people want is strictly fixes and security related patches, and that
is ALL I propose to want to include. Perhaps if the vendors
want a "common vendor" patch they could maintain it? ;)

So, to that end, I have made available:
(URL is http://www.hardrock.org/kernel/current-updates/)

linux-2.4.20-updates.patch: Contains all three patches below. For the
primary fixes needed in the current release kernel.

Individual patches:
linux-2.4.20-ext3.patch: Fixes for ext3 data=journal umount patch, sync-fix
patch, and use-after-free patch from Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>.

linux-2.4.20-ptrace.patch: Alan Cox relased a patch against 2.4.20 which
did not apply cleanly (perhaps it was his -ac tree). This will
apply cleanly and compile under i386 to the clean 2.4.20 source
tree.

linux-2.4.20-tg3.patch: Jeff Garzik and David S. Millers tg3 1.4c
driver for 2.4.20.

Enjoy!

Regards
James Bourne

> Jeff

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James Bourne, Supervisor Data Centre Operations
Mount Royal College, Calgary, AB, CA
www.mtroyal.ab.ca

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