Re: Bug#254325: kernel-source-2.4.22: DoS in OSS Sound Blaster Driver (CAN-2004-0178)

2004-06-14 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 05:32:07PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-14 08:46]: > > debian-kernel: Can we remove kernel-source-2.4.22 from sid yet? > > It has been removed from sid at the end of May. OK, so there is no point in keeping these bugs arou

about New Linux Kernel Crash-Exploit issue

2004-06-14 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, (Probably Debian kernel people know about this issue, but I cannot find any discuss, so just FYI.) New Linux Kernel Crash-Exploit discovered http://linuxreviews.org/news/2004-06-11_kernel_crash/index.html http://slashdot.org/articles/04/06/14/118209.shtml?tid=106&tid=126&tid=128&tid

non-experimental duploads

2004-06-14 Thread William Lee Irwin III
Non-experimental duploads are imminent in order to resolve the i386 FPU handling bug. These duploads will transfer maintainership of the i386 kernel packages and those alone to debian-kernel@lists.debian.org in addition to including the i386 FPU handling fixes. No other changes whatsoever to Herbe

Bug#254352: kernel-image-2.6-686: postinst fails because of sbp2

2004-06-14 Thread Pierre THIERRY
> severity 254352 normal As if the bug is confirmed (i.e. not specific to my computer, or some strange configuration problem), the kernel is totally uninstallable while the bug is not corrected, wouldn't it make sense that the bug be grave? But sorry to have filed it again on the kernel instead o

Re: Bug#254325: kernel-source-2.4.22: DoS in OSS Sound Blaster Driver (CAN-2004-0178)

2004-06-14 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 07:37:46PM +0900, Horms wrote: > Package: kernel-source-2.4.22 > Version: 2.4.22-7.um.3 > Severity: normal > Tags: security sid patch > > Bug filed on request from William Lee Irwin > > The OSS code for the Sound Blaster driver in Linux 2.4.x does not > properly handle ce

Re: Bug#254325: kernel-source-2.4.22: DoS in OSS Sound Blaster Driver (CAN-2004-0178)

2004-06-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-14 08:46]: > debian-kernel: Can we remove kernel-source-2.4.22 from sid yet? It has been removed from sid at the end of May. -- Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: working version snapshots

2004-06-14 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 04:41:55AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> I'm putting some snapshots of my working versions at >> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/wli/debian/2.6/2.6.7-rc3-mm2 On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 05:03:21PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > -mm2? You don't want to

Re: upstream resynch

2004-06-14 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 02:35:49AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> The 3ware one doesn't need the bugreport reopened. Some alternative >> completely different fix was merged that makes the patch for it >> unnecessary. So that's 100% of the patches to be dropped included >> upstream in some f

Other kernel packages

2004-06-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
There are some other kernel related packages that have to be taken care of: cramfs initrd-tools kernel-image-*-alpha kernel-image-*-i386 kernel-kbuild-* kernel-source-* modules-scyld-source-0.1 Jeff Bailey was interested in helping with initrd-tools and I put him in contact with wli today. It wo

Re: Should we remove raidtools?

2004-06-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 03:36:07PM +0200, Kars de Jong wrote: > On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 22:36, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > My VME box doesn't boot 2.4, no. Of course, woody supports three types > > of VME machines, and I only have one of them; but I don't think it's > > likely they'll boot. > > Reall

Re: Should we remove raidtools?

2004-06-14 Thread Kars de Jong
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 22:36, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 10:24:41PM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 03:37:42PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > AFAIK we won't be able to kick off 2.2 for sarge. IIRC 2.2 will > > > probably be necessary for some

Re: working version snapshots

2004-06-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 04:41:55AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > I'm putting some snapshots of my working versions at > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/wli/debian/2.6/2.6.7-rc3-mm2 -mm2? You don't want to actually release that, do you?

Re: upstream resynch

2004-06-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 02:35:49AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 02:12:10AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > The 3ware patch looks bogus, most of the others got sent upstream at > > least once before (sorry hch). Looks like I've been told which side bk > > tre

Re: working version snapshots

2004-06-14 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 04:41:55AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > I'm putting some snapshots of my working versions at > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/wli/debian/2.6/2.6.7-rc3-mm2 > The upload is still in progress. > These are not suitable for direct inclusion in the debian ar

Re: NMU: kernel

2004-06-14 Thread viro
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 03:31:51PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-24 09:40]: > > What I have in mind is a setup with daily cross-compiled kernel > > builds from the cvs repository that get uploaded in some central > > location so we a) know it buil

Re: NMU: kernel

2004-06-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-24 09:40]: > What I have in mind is a setup with daily cross-compiled kernel > builds from the cvs repository that get uploaded in some central > location so we a) know it builds and b) people can easily test it > work. I can try to get machines for

working version snapshots

2004-06-14 Thread William Lee Irwin III
I'm putting some snapshots of my working versions at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/wli/debian/2.6/2.6.7-rc3-mm2 The upload is still in progress. These are not suitable for direct inclusion in the debian archives due to the fact they include the patch to sanitize the kernel tree, wh

Processed: Re: Bug#254352: kernel-image-2.6-686: postinst fails because of sbp2

2004-06-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > severity 254352 normal Bug#254352: kernel-image-2.6-686: postinst fails because of sbp2 Severity set to `normal'. > reassign 254352 initrd-tools Bug#254352: kernel-image-2.6-686: postinst fails because of sbp2 Bug reassigned from package `kernel-image-

Re: upstream resynch

2004-06-14 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 02:12:10AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > The 3ware patch looks bogus, most of the others got sent upstream at > least once before (sorry hch). Looks like I've been told which side bk > trees the fixes are sitting in or otherwise which ones aren't in side > bk trees e

Re: Sarge and real i386-boxes

2004-06-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > since some time, it's not possible to upgrade to sarge with an real > i386-box (real mean: not i486 or higher). This is due to changes in > the gcc, and therefore we need an upgrade kernel etc, see bug #241497 > for the details. It was intended t

Re: upstream resynch

2004-06-14 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 06:12:26PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > I've sent a number of bugfixes upstream for inclusion in 2.6.7, based > on hch's breakup of the old cvs tree: > patches/00_dont-dereference-netdev.name-before-register_netdev:2:This fixes > Debian BTS #234817. > patches/00_dr

Bug#254310: Typos

2004-06-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Package: initrd-tools Severity: minor - Forwarded message from Alexander Dreweke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Alexander Dreweke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: typos and suggestions for initrd-tools Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 15:26:35 +0200 To: debian-kernel@lists.debian.org Hi, one suggestions,

Processed: Re: please comment

2004-06-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > severity 252464 important Bug#252464: initrd-tools: ext2 module is missing when MODULE=dep on powerpc/pegasos, and running an ext2 root. Severity set to `important'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian

Re: typos and suggestions for initrd-tools

2004-06-14 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Alexander Dreweke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-03 15:26]: > * why is there an bin2 and dev2 directory in the ramdisk? Why don't > use bin and dev instead? Herbert said "it's for #241051 where the user boots with init=/bin/sh and the system drops him into the the initrd image." -- Martin Michl

Re: current firmware blacklist

2004-06-14 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 06:35:40PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Please, no debates on the firmware subject. >> Here is the current blacklist of tainted files that need to be >> sanitized and/or removed from virgin mainline. On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 03:35:27AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

Re: Should we remove raidtools?

2004-06-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 03:37:42PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Andrew Pollock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040610 09:40]: > > Do we need to have three different RAID packages in sarge? > > > > >From the package description, it's only necessary for unpatched 2.2 > > >kernels. > > > > Given that we're

Re: Please look at bug #253787

2004-06-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 12:40:50AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi all, > > Apologies if this is something that people are already aware of. Since > I don't know the status of PTS handling and/or adoption for the > kernel-image and kernel-source packages, I thought it would be best to > post he

Re: current firmware blacklist

2004-06-14 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 06:35:40PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > Please, no debates on the firmware subject. > > Here is the current blacklist of tainted files that need to be > sanitized and/or removed from virgin mainline. > > drivers/net/acenic_firmware.h > drivers/net/dgrs_firmware.c

Re: Debian kernel: various issues to discuss

2004-06-14 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 11:25:59PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 08:59:41 +0200, Francesco Paolo Lovergine <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: > > > On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 12:21:42AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > >> > >> I don't care much, not being particularly familiar with e

Re: Sarge TODO items

2004-06-14 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 11:22:32PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 00:34:05 +0200, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > That said, i prefer the simpler to use subversion, it let you be > > more productive. > > Do you have any basis for that statement? I have abs