Re: [2/2] 2.6.22-rc5: known regressions with patches

[Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.22-rc5
with patches available.

Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc.
http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions



Memory management

Subject    : bug in i386 MTRR initialization
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/19/93
Submitter  : Andrea Righi <righiandr@users.sourceforge.net>
Status     : patch available



Networking
Subject    : commit 9093bbb2d96d0184f037cea9b4e952a44ebe7c32 broke the bonding driver
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/13/65
Submitter  : Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org>
Handled-By : Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Status     : patch available
             (I cannot find it in archives. Stephen, please resend the patch)

Subject    : no irda0 interface (2.6.21 was OK), smsc does not find chip
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/3/16
Submitter  : Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Handled-By : Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
             Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/7/237
Status     : patch was suggested



SELinux

Subject    : very high non-preempt latency in context_struct_compute_av()
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/4/78
Submitter  : Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Handled-By : Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
             James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Patch      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/7/334
Status     : patch available



USB

Subject    : list_add corruption. prev->next should be next (f7d28794), but was f0df8ed4 (prev=f0df8ed4) Kernel Bug at lib/list_debug.c:33
References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8561
Submitter  : Paulo Pereira <pfmp.404@gmail.com>
Handled-By : Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Patch      : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8561#c8
Status     : patch was suggested



Regards,
Michal

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