Linux 2.6.9-ac10

Linux 2.6.9-ac10

[Alan Cox]

More merges and forward ports. These include the extra binfmt_elf checks and
the SMBfs overflow fixes that match those in 2.4.28. It also includes
several patches Dave Miller believes should be backported from the
networking code. Also fixed is a long standing problem where ide would
claim some devices it couldn't actually use and didn't install drivers for.

Arjan van de Ven is now building RPMS of the kernel and those can be found
in the RPM subdirectory and should be yum-able. Expect the RPMS to lag the
diff a little as the RPM builds and tests do take time.

The it8212 still doesn't default to DMA on - that is on the TODO list. The
HPT366 rework project is also not ready (its gone back to the drawing
board for a few days if you are a volunteer and wondered what is up).

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/linux-2.6/2.6.9/

Key:	o	- only in -ac
	*	- already fixed upstream
	X	- discarded later as wrong
	+	- ac specific (fix not relevant to non -ac)

2.6.9-ac10
o	Fix tiny ide-cd race				(Alan Cox)
*	Remove an apparently bogus IDE CD blacklist   (Srihari Vijayaraghavan)
	for a drive confirmed to work
o	Correct vendor of some Cyrix chipsets in docs
o	Error path locking fix for appletalk		(Andries Brouwer)
o	Remove a suspicious __initdata			(Andries Brouwer)
o	Further binfmt_elf work				(Jakub Jelinek)
o	SMBfs overflow fixes				(Stefan Esser)
	| Collated together by Juan Quintela
*	Don't spew debug on bioses with ACPI		(Len Brown)
	breakpoints left in them.
*	Further NFS disconnected dentry fix		(Neil Brown)
*	tmpfs inode accounting leak fix			(Hugh Dickins)
*	x86-64: Fix user triggerable oops on debugger	(Andi Kleen)
	vsyscall page access	
*	Serialize datagram read on AF_UNIX		(Dave Miller)
*	Disable PnP BIOS when using ACPI		(Adam Belay)
o	Fix oops in visor driver caused by DoS fixes	(Roger Luethi)
o	Fix several IDE drivers that assumed > 0 was	(Alan Cox)
	also an error return for pci probe functions
*	Backport netlink updates/fixes from 10rc2	(Herbert Xu,
							 Dave Miller)
*	Backport multihop routing oops fix		(Christian Ehrhardt)
*	Backport TSO fixes				(Herbert Xu)

2.6.9-ac9
*	Linus moved the remap_page_range flag fixes 	(Linus Torvalds)
	into the function. Now this has had some 
	testing do the same in -ac and shrink the
	diff a lot
*	Fix low memory oops in device mapper		(N Cunningham)
*	Fix duplicate kfree in dm-target error path	(Alasdair Kergon)
*	Use a new bio on a md retry			(Neil Brown)
+	Fix mediabay compile				(Alan Cox)
*	Increase EDD array size				(Matt Domsch)
*	Fix locking error/DoS in k15kusb105		(Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
*	Fix locking hang on error path of whiteheat	(Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
*	Use sector_t for md (fixes some large raids)	(Neil Brown)
*	Fix further USB locking errors			(Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
*	Report the right thing on a pnpbios fault	(Andy Whitcroft)
*	Add PCI quirk for VIA audio			(David Shaohua Li)
*	Fix neighbour table counter atomicity		(Herbert Xu)
o	Error out on early exec before rootfs		(Chris Wright)
*	Fix a.out crash with junk binary and 		(Chris Wright)
	virtual memory limits disabled
*	Import atomic_int_return for the neighbour fix	(KaiKai Kohei)

2.6.9-ac8
*	Fix binfmt_exec partial read problem		(Chris Wright)
*	Fix E820 overflow on x86-64 as per x86-32	(Andi Kleen)

2.6.9-ac7
o	Redo the fixups in siimage/it8212 so they	(Alan Cox)
	always actually work
o	Fix up both drives on an IT8212 raid		(Alan Cox)
*	Remove a debug printk/2 sec wait from CS5520	(Alan Cox)
*	Move partial decode test to ide-cs/delkin only	(Alan Cox)
*	Fix partial decode test for no serial number	(Alan Cox)
o	Add support for disks on early rev IT821x	(Alan Cox)
+	Allow ide-disk to be modular again		(Tomas Szepe)
*	Further fixup fixes			(Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz)
o	Apple Ipod-mini size reporting fix		(Avi Kivity)
*	Initial (non SMP) cdu31a driver rescue		(Ondrej Zary)
o	Allow READ_BUFFER_CAPACITY to SG_IO users	(Daniel Drake)

2.6.9-ac6
+	Fix problem with -ac5 msdos changes		(Vojtech Pavlik)

2.6.9-ac5
o	Fix oops in and enable IT8212 driver		(Alan Cox)
o	Minor delkin driver fix				(Mark Lord)
o	Fix NFS mount hangs with long FQDN		(Jan Kasprzak)
	| I've used this version as its clearly correct for 2.6.9 
	| although it might not be the right future solution
o	Fix overstrict FAT checks stopping reading of	(Vojtech Pavlik)
	some devices like Nokia phones
*	Fix misdetection of some drives as MRW capable	(Peter Osterlund)
*	Fix promise 20267 hang with very long I/O's	(Krzysztof Chmielewski)
*	Fix a case where serial break was not sent for	(Paul Fulghum)
	the right time.
*	Fix S/390 specific SACF hole			(Martin Schwidefsky)
*	NVidia ACPI timer override			(Andi Kleen)
o	Correct VIA PT880 PCI ident (and AGP ident)	(Dave Jones)
o	Fix EDID/E820 corruption 			(Venkatesh Pallipadi)
*	Tighten security on TIOCCONS			(od@suse.de)
*	Fix incorrect __init s that could cause crash	(Randy Dunlap)

2.6.9-ac4
*	Fix minor DoS bug in visor USB driver		(Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o	Delkin cardbus IDE support			(Mark Lord)
+	Fix SMP hang with IDE unregister		(Mark Lord)
*	Fix proc file removal with IDE unregister	(Mark Lord)
o	Fix aic7xxx sleep with locks held and debug	(Luben Tuikov)
	spew
o	First take at HPT372N problem fixing		(Alan Cox)

2.6.9-ac3
*	Fix syncppp/async ppp problems with new hangup	(Paul Fulghum)
*	Fix broken parport_pc unload			(Andrea Arcangeli)
*	Security fix for smbfs leak/overrun		(Urban Widmark)
*	Stop i8xx_tco making some boxes reboot on load	(wim@iguana)
*	Fix cpia/module tools deadlock			(Peter Pregler)
+	Fix missing suid_dumpable export		(Alan Cox)

2.6.9-ac2
+	Fix invalid kernel version stupidity		(Adrian Bunk)
*	Compiler ICE workaround/fixup			(Linus Torvalds)
*	Fix network DoS bug in 2.6.9			(Herbert Xu)
	| Suggested by Sami Farin
o	Flash lights on panic as in 2.4			(Andi Kleen)

2.6.9-ac1

Security Fixes
*	Set VM_IO on areas that are temporarily		(Alan Cox)
	marked PageReserved (Serious bug)
o	Lock ide-proc against driver unload		(Alan Cox)
	(very low severity)

Bug Fixes
o	Working IDE locking				(Alan Cox)
	| And a great deal of review by Bartlomiej
o	Handle E7xxx boxes with USB legacy flaws	(Alan Cox)
	
Functionality
o	Allow booting with "irqpoll" or "irqfixup"	(Alan Cox)
	on systems with broken IRQ tables.
o	Support for setuid core dumping in some		(Alan Cox)
	environments (off by default)
*	Support for drives that don't report geometry
o	IT8212 support (raid and passthrough)		(Alan Cox)
o	Allow IDE to grab all unknown generic IDE	(Alan Cox)
	devices (boot with "all-generic-ide")
o	Restore PWC driver				(Luc Saillard)

Other
o	Small pending tty clean-up to moxa		(Alan Cox)
o	Put VIA Velocity (tm) adapters under gigabit	(VIA)

Re: Linux 2.6.9-ac10

[CaT]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 02:50:16PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> The it8212 still doesn't default to DMA on - that is on the TODO list. The

Are you sure?

# hdparm  -v /dev/hdg

/dev/hdg:
 multcount    = 16 (on)
 I/O support  =  0 (default 16-bit)
 unmaskirq    =  1 (on)
 using_dma    =  1 (on)
 keepsettings =  0 (off)
 nowerr       =  0 (off)
 readonly     =  0 (off)
 readahead    = 256 (on)
 geometry     = 24321/255/63, sectors = 390721968, start = 0
 busstate     =  1 (on)

IT8212: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:03:05.0
IT8212: chipset revision 17
IT8212: 100% native mode on irq 29
    ide2: BM-DMA at 0x4420-0x4427, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
it8212: controller in pass through mode.
    ide3: BM-DMA at 0x4428-0x442f, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:pio
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
hdg: WDC WD2000JB-00FUA0, ATA DISK drive
ide3 at 0x4410-0x4417,0x441a on irq 29
hdg: max request size: 1024KiB
hdg: 390721968 sectors (200049 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=24321/255/63,
UDMA(100)
hdg: cache flushes supported
 hdg: hdg1

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Re: Linux 2.6.9-ac10

[Alan Cox]

On Gwe, 2004-11-19 at 03:07, CaT wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 02:50:16PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The it8212 still doesn't default to DMA on - that is on the TODO list. The
> 
> Are you sure?

It will in pass through or with no RAID volume present but not with a
hardware raid volume

Re: Linux 2.6.9-ac10

[CaT]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 11:25:51AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Gwe, 2004-11-19 at 03:07, CaT wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 02:50:16PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > The it8212 still doesn't default to DMA on - that is on the TODO list. The
> > 
> > Are you sure?
> 
> It will in pass through or with no RAID volume present but not with a
> hardware raid volume

Ahh. Ok. That's my situation. Carry on. Nothing to see here. :)

BTW. Thanks for the port. I can finally backup a windows machine as
rsync+cygwin froze consistantly and 2.4+cifs patch was slow to the point
of uselessness. 2.6.10-ac10 with rsync over cifs gives me a faster speed
then rsync+cygwin ever did, even with a tailwind.

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