We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.20.4 kernel. It contains a number of bugfixes and all 2.6.20 users are recommended to upgrade.
The diffstat and short summary of the fixes are below. I'll also be replying to this message with a copy of the patch between 2.6.20.3 and 2.6.20.4. The updated 2.6.20.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.20.y.git and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: www.kernel.org/git/ thanks, greg k-h -------- Makefile | 2 arch/ia64/kernel/iosapic.c | 8 ++- arch/ia64/sn/kernel/irq.c | 14 +++++- arch/sparc64/kernel/ktlb.S | 8 +++ arch/sparc64/kernel/tsb.S | 1 arch/sparc64/lib/NGbzero.S | 1 arch/sparc64/lib/NGmemcpy.S | 2 arch/sparc64/lib/NGpage.S | 2 arch/sparc64/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 3 + arch/sparc64/mm/init.c | 30 ++++++++++++- arch/um/include/os.h | 2 arch/um/os-Linux/sys-x86_64/Makefile | 2 arch/um/os-Linux/sys-x86_64/prctl.c | 12 +++++ arch/um/sys-x86_64/syscalls.c | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- arch/um/sys-x86_64/tls.c | 11 +++-- drivers/input/serio/i8042.c | 20 ++++++--- drivers/md/linear.c | 2 drivers/net/r8169.c | 10 ++-- drivers/pci/probe.c | 45 ++++++++++++++------ drivers/scsi/gdth.c | 2 drivers/scsi/st.c | 23 +++++----- drivers/scsi/st.h | 3 - drivers/usb/host/ehci-hub.c | 4 + fs/nfs/inode.c | 3 - include/asm-sparc64/tsb.h | 2 include/asm-um/processor-x86_64.h | 6 +- include/asm-um/ptrace-x86_64.h | 6 -- include/linux/ktime.h | 6 ++ kernel/auditsc.c | 24 +++++------ kernel/fork.c | 2 kernel/futex.c | 2 kernel/hrtimer.c | 6 ++ mm/filemap.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++----- mm/madvise.c | 5 +- mm/oom_kill.c | 2 net/core/skbuff.c | 1 net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c | 7 +-- net/ipv4/devinet.c | 4 + net/ipv4/fib_trie.c | 2 net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c | 2 net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 1 net/irda/irttp.c | 1 net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c | 8 --- net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c | 6 +- sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c | 13 +++++ 45 files changed, 321 insertions(+), 117 deletions(-) Summary of changes from v2.6.20.3 to v2.6.20.4 ============================================== Al Viro (1): fix deadlock in audit_log_task_context() Alan Stern (1): EHCI: add delay to bus_resume before accessing ports Alexey Dobriyan (1): Copy over mac_len when cloning an skb Andy Isaacson (1): fix read past end of array in md/linear.c Ankita Garg (1): oom fix: prevent oom from killing a process with children/sibling unkillable David Miller (3): Fix sparc64 hugepage bugs Fix page allocation debugging on sparc64 Fix niagara memory corruption Dmitry Torokhov (3): Input: i8042 - really suppress ACK/NAK during panic blink Input: i8042 - fix AUX IRQ delivery check Input: i8042 - another attempt to fix AUX delivery checks Evgeniy Polyakov (1): Fix rtm_to_ifaddr() error return. Francois Romieu (1): r8169: fix a race between PCI probe and dev_open Greg Kroah-Hartman (1): Linux 2.6.20.4 Ingo Molnar (1): futex: PI state locking fix Jan Beulich (1): adjust legacy IDE resource setting (v2) Jeff Dike (1): UML - arch_prctl should set thread fs Joerg Dorchain (1): gdth: fix oops in gdth_copy_cmd() Joy Latten (1): Fix extraneous IPSEC larval SA creation KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki (1): IA64: fix NULL pointer in ia64/irq_chip-mask/unmask function Kai Makisara (1): st: fix Tape dies if wrong block size used, bug 7919 Masayuki Nakagawa (1): Fix ipv6 flow label inheritance Michal Miroslaw (1): NETFILTER: nfnetlink_log: fix reference counting Nick Piggin (1): mm: fix madvise infinine loop Olaf Kirch (1): Fix another NULL pointer deref in ipv6_sockglue.c Paul Moore (1): NetLabel: Verify sensitivity level has a valid CIPSO mapping Robert Olsson (1): Fix GFP_KERNEL with preemption disabled in fib_trie Samuel Ortiz (1): IrDA: irttp_dup spin_lock initialisation Takashi Iwai (1): hda-intel - Fix codec probe with ATI controllers Thomas Gleixner (2): hrtimer: prevent overrun DoS in hrtimer_forward() fix MTIME_SEC_MAX on 32-bit Trond Myklebust (1): nfs: nfs_getattr() can't call nfs_sync_mapping_range() for non-regular files Zach Brown (1): dio: invalidate clean pages before dio write Zilvinas Valinskas (1): initialise pi_lock if CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES=N - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/