Fedora 12 Update: kernel-2.6.32.9-67.fc12

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-3228
2010-03-02 00:30:05
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Name        : kernel
Product     : Fedora 12
Version     : 2.6.32.9
Release     : 67.fc12
URL         : http://www.kernel.org/
Summary     : The Linux kernel
Description :
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any
Linux operating system.  The kernel handles the basic functions
of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device
input and output, etc.

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Update Information:

Update to kernel 2.6.32.9:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.1
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.2
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.3
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.4
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.5
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.6
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.7
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.8
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.9      Also
contains:    Additional DRM updates.    Fixes for problems with abrt in previous
testing update.    Fixes problems with VIA graphics caused by autoload of the
viafb driver in 2.6.32.
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ChangeLog:

* Sat Feb 27 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>  2.6.32.9-67
- Fix lookup of automount symlinks (#567813)
- Fix stack expansion rlimit check broken by a patch in 2.6.32.9
* Thu Feb 25 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>  2.6.32.9-66
- TCP: fix broken RTO calculation causing high CPU load (#567530)
* Thu Feb 25 2010 Ben Skeggs <bskeggs at redhat.com> 2.6.32.9-65
- nouveau: DP fix for cards with version 0x20 DP tables
* Tue Feb 23 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>  2.6.32.9-64
- Linux 2.6.32.9
* Tue Feb 23 2010 Ben Skeggs <bskeggs at redhat.com> 2.6.32.9-63.rc1
- nouveau: fix pre-nv17 output detection regression, support for GF8 IGPs
* Mon Feb 22 2010 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com>
- coredump-uid-pipe-check.patch: ditto from F-13/
* Mon Feb 22 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>  2.6.32.9-61.rc1
- Drop the PCI device table in the viafb driver -- it was added in
  2.6.32 and we don't want the driver to autoload.
* Mon Feb 22 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>  2.6.32.9-60.rc1
- Linux 2.6.32.9-rc1
- Revert the 14 DRM patches from 2.6.32.9: we already have them
- Drop other patches merged upstream:
  wmi-check-wmi-get-event-data-return-value.patch
  wmi-free-the-allocated-acpi-objects.patch
  fix-conntrack-bug-with-namespaces.patch
  prevent-runtime-conntrack-changes.patch
  fix-crash-with-sys_move_pages.patch
  futex-handle-futex-value-corruption-gracefully.patch
  futex-handle-user-space-corruption-gracefully.patch
  futex_lock_pi-key-refcnt-fix.patch
  fix-race-in-tty_fasync-properly.patch
* Thu Feb 18 2010 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.32.8-59
- ice1712-fix-revo71-mixer-names.patch: fix mixer names for
  monty. (rhbz#566565)
* Wed Feb 17 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>  2.6.32.8-58
- fix-race-in-tty_fasync-properly.patch: fix for deadlock caused
  by original patch in 2.6.32.6
* Wed Feb 17 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>  2.6.32.8-57
- CVE-2010-0623 kernel: local DoS via futex_lock_pi
* Wed Feb 17 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- CVE-2009-4537 kernel: r8169 issue reported at 26c3
  (fix taken from Red Hat/CentOS 5.4)
* Wed Feb 17 2010 Ben Skeggs <bskeggs at redhat.com> 2.6.32.8.55
- drm-nouveau-mutex.patch: add fix that didn't quite make it to linus yet
* Wed Feb 17 2010 Ben Skeggs <bskeggs at redhat.com>
- nouveau: rebase fedora patchset
- drm-nouveau-shared-fb.patch: drop
- drm-nouveau-update.patch: drop, included in previous drm update
* Wed Feb 17 2010 Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com> 
- drm-upgrayedd.patch - update - needs nouveau patch rebase
- drop reverted upstream commits since rc8 - also drop other merged patches
* Tue Feb 16 2010 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.32.8-51
- vgaarb-fix-userspace-ptr-deref.patch: fix a userspace ptr deref.
  (rhbz#564246) [and correct upstream diff]
* Tue Feb 16 2010 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.32.8-50
- fix-abrtd.patch: backport of nhorman's call_usermode_helper changes
  from devel/ & linux-next.
* Tue Feb  9 2010 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.32.8-49
- Linux 2.6.32.8
- futex-handle-user-space-corruption-gracefully.patch: Fix oops in
  the PI futex code. (rhbz#563091)
* Sun Feb  7 2010 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.32.8-48.rc2
- xfs: xfs_swap_extents needs to handle dynamic fork offsets (rhbz#510823)
  from sandeen.
* Sun Feb  7 2010 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.32.8-47.rc2
- fix-ima-null-ptr-deref.patch: fix null ptr deref in IMA introduced
  in 2.6.32-rc5.
* Sat Feb  6 2010 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.32.8-46.rc2
- fix-crash-with-sys_move_pages.patch: sys_move_pages doesn't bounds
  check the node properly.
* Fri Feb  5 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>  2.6.32.8-45.rc2
- Linux 2.6.32.8-rc2
- Drop fix-net-restore-ip-source-validation.patch
* Fri Feb  5 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>  2.6.32.8-44.rc1
- Fix networking bug in 2.6.32.8-rc1
* Thu Feb  4 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>  2.6.32.8-43.rc1
- Linux 2.6.32.8-rc1
- Revert three DRM patches from 2.6.32.8:
  drm-i915-only-enable-hotplug-for-detected-outputs.patch : already in
  drm-i915-reload-hangcheck-timer-too-for-ironlake.patch : conflicts
  drm-i915-selectively-enable-self-reclaim.patch : already in
- Drop patches merged in -stable:
  linux-2.6-userspace_kvmclock_offset.patch
  block-fix-bugs-in-bio-integrity-mempool-usage.patch
* Wed Feb  3 2010 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com>
- Fix another conntrack issue pointed out by jcm.
- Fix utrace header. (rhbz#561536)
* Wed Feb  3 2010 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com>
- fix-conntrack-bug-with-namespaces.patch: Fix for issue identified by jcm,
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/2/3/112
* Tue Feb  2 2010 David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse at intel.com> 2.6.32.7-40
- Disable graphics DMAR unit on Cantiga (#538163)
* Mon Feb  1 2010 Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com> 2.6.32.7-39
- Add two input quirks for HP and eGalax touchscreens.
* Sat Jan 30 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>  2.6.32.7-38
- Fix possible oops in bio-integrity code.
* Thu Jan 28 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>  2.6.32.7-37
- Linux 2.6.32.7
* Mon Jan 25 2010 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.32.6-36
- fix gspca mismerge.
* Mon Jan 25 2010 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.32.6-35
- stable update 2.6.32.6
- rebase gspca crud.
* Mon Jan 25 2010 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> 2.6.32.5-34
- Disable CONFIG_X86_CPU_DEBUG
* Sun Jan 24 2010 Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> 2.6.32.5-33
- Rebase gspca usb webcam driver + sub drivers to latest upstream, this
  adds support for the following webcam bridge chipsets:
  benq, cpia1, ovfx2, sn9c2028, w996xCF, stv0680;
  and also includes many many bugfixes (hopefully also fixes 531234)
* Sat Jan 23 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com> 2.6.32.5-32
- Linux 2.6.32.5
- Revert commit c7c85101afd0cb8ce497456d12ee1cad4aad152f from
  upstream .32.5 because it conflicts with our DRM update.
* Sat Jan 23 2010 Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com> 2.6.32.4-31
- fix dracut depends
* Thu Jan 21 2010 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com> 2.6.32.4-30
- Report meaningful values for MCS rates through wireless extensions
* Wed Jan 20 2010 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.32.4-29
- add appleir usb driver
* Mon Jan 18 2010 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.32.4-28
- Linux stable 2.6.32.4
- drm-upgrayedd: rebase for related changes in intel_display.c, i915_drv.h
* Mon Jan 18 2010 Ben Skeggs <bskeggs at redhat.com> 2.6.32.3-27
- various nouveau fixes from upstream
- dropped drm-nouveau-bios-paranoia.patch, it's upstream now
* Thu Jan 14 2010 Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> 2.6.32.3-26
- Don't generate i915 TV hotplug interrupts ever ever ever.
* Thu Jan 14 2010 Josef Bacik <josef at toxicpanda.com> 2.6.32.3-25
- fix null pointer dereference in btrfs acl code
* Wed Jan 13 2010 Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com> 2.6.32.3-24
- drm fixes from upstream - mostly printk stupids + integrate radeon s/r fix
* Wed Jan 13 2010 Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com> 2.6.32.3-23
- crystalhd fix build on powerpc
* Wed Jan 13 2010 Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com> 2.6.32.3-22
- bring back offb handoff patch - fixes G5 + nouveau
* Wed Jan 13 2010 Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com> 2.6.32.3-21
- fix regression in radeon s/r - hangs on suspend
* Wed Jan 13 2010 Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com> 2.6.32.3-20
- force depend ati firmware, better safe than sorry. I don't
  think dracut and dracut kernel are what I wanted to do.
* Wed Jan 13 2010 Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com> 2.6.32.3-19
- update dracut requires to make sure we get -ati firmware
- add fbdev multi-card console fix patch
* Tue Jan 12 2010 Jarod Wilson <jarod at redhat.com> 2.6.32.3-18
- Add Broadcom Crystal HD driver from staging
* Tue Jan 12 2010 Ben Skeggs <bskeggs at redhat.com> 2.6.32.3-17
- add nouveau to staging Kconfig
* Tue Jan 12 2010 Ben Skeggs <bskeggs at redhat.com> 2.6.32.3-16
- nouveau: fix nvac noaccel patch, not sure what happened there!
* Tue Jan 12 2010 Ben Skeggs <bskeggs at redhat.com> 2.6.32.3-15
- nouveau: patches and firmware from F12 that aren't in upstream kernel
* Mon Jan 11 2010 Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com> 2.6.32.3-14
- drm-upgrayedd.patch: rebase to present 2.6.33 (drm-linus)
- nouveau TODO - comment out no-tv-hp for now, leave patch
- we can readd if all the upstream goodness didn't fix it
* Mon Jan 11 2010 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.32.3-13
- drm-intel-no-tv-hotplug.patch: re-add lost patch from F-12
  2.6.31 (#522611, #544671)
* Mon Jan 11 2010 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.32.3-12
- Re-enable ATM_HE (#545289)
* Fri Jan  8 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>  2.6.32.3-11
- Add another symbol to look for when generating modules.block
* Thu Jan  7 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>  2.6.32.3-10
- Turn off default powersave mode for AC97 and HDA audio devices
  due to continuing bug reports (can still be enabled in sysfs.)
- Remove some patches that are upstream:
  v4l-dvb-fix-cx25840-firmware-loading.patch
  fix-9p-fscache.patch
  ext4-fix-insufficient-checks-in-EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT.patch
* Thu Jan  7 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>  2.6.32.3-9
- Change configs to build the acerhdf driver again, requires
  setting CONFIG_HWMON=y
* Wed Jan  6 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>  2.6.32.3-8
- Linux 2.6.32.3
* Wed Jan  6 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>  2.6.32.3-7.rc2
- Remove obsolete config options (generated .config files are
  unchanged.)
* Wed Jan  6 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>  2.6.32.3-6.rc2
- Linux 2.6.32.3-rc2
* Tue Jan  5 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>  2.6.32.3-5.rc1
- Linux 2.6.32.3-rc1
- Drop merged patches:
  linux-2.6-fix-btusb-autosuspend.patch
  drm-radeon-fix-crtc-vbl-update-for-r600.patch
* Tue Jan  5 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>  2.6.32.2-4
- Fix WMI driver oopses and a memory leak.
* Tue Jan  5 2010 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>  2.6.32.2-3
- Run 'make release', fix up tracing options to match what shipped
  in F-12, fix CPU count on x86-64.
* Mon Jan  4 2010 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Drop some of the spinlock/vm taint patches. dump_stack() already does same.
* Fri Jan  1 2010 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.32.2-1
- Rebased F-12 to 2.6.32, still needs forward porting of patches.
* Thu Dec 24 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.32.2-15
- Add patch from dri-devel to fix vblanks on r600.
  [http://marc.info/?l=dri-devel&m=126137027403059&w=2]
* Fri Dec 18 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.32.2-14
- Linux 2.6.32.2
- dropped upstream patches.
* Fri Dec 18 2009 Roland McGrath <roland at redhat.com> - 2.6.32.1-13
- minor utrace update
* Thu Dec 17 2009 Matthew Garrett <mjg at redhat.com> 2.6.32.1-12
- linux-2.6-driver-level-usb-autosuspend.diff: fix so it works properly...
- linux-2.6-fix-btusb-autosuspend.patch: avoid bluetooth connection drops
- linux-2.6-enable-btusb-autosuspend.patch: and default it to on
- linux-2.6-autoload-wmi.patch: autoload WMI drivers
* Thu Dec 17 2009 Jarod Wilson <jarod at redhat.com> 2.6.32.1-11
- Split off onboard decode imon devices into pure input driver,
  leaving lirc_imon for the ancient imon devices only
- Fix NULL ptr deref in lirc_serial (#543886)
- Assorted lirc_mceusb fixups suggested by Mauro
- Dropped compat ioctls from lirc_dev, main ioctls should now be
  compatible between 32-bit and 64-bit (also at Mauro's suggestion)
* Wed Dec 16 2009 Roland McGrath <roland at redhat.com> 2.6.32.1-10
- utrace update, now testing the utrace-based ptrace!
* Mon Dec 14 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.32.1-9
- 2.6.32.1
- ext4 patches and more...
* Wed Dec  9 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.32-8
- Add a patch off lkml from krh to fix perf when DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC
  (rhbz#542791)
- Re-enable CONFIG_DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC on debug kernels.
* Wed Dec  9 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.32-7
- ext4-fix-insufficient-checks-in-EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT.patch: CVE-2009-4131
  fix insufficient permission checking which could result in arbitrary
  data corruption by a local unprivileged user.
* Tue Dec  8 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com> 2.6.32-6
- Copy fix for #540580 from F-12.
* Tue Dec  8 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.32-5
- new rpm changes:
 - 2.6.32.9 -> 2.6.32.9
 - 67.fc12 -> 67.fc12
* Tue Dec  8 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.32-4
- Disable CONFIG_DEBUG_PERF_USE_VMALLOC for now, causes issues
  on x86_64. (rhbz#542791)
* Mon Dec  7 2009 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes at redhat.com> 2.6.32-3
- Allow userspace to adjust kvmclock offset (#530389)
* Mon Dec  7 2009 Steve Dickson <steved at redhat.com> 2.6.32-2
- Updated the NFS4 pseudo root code to the latest release.
* Thu Dec  3 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.32-1
- Linux 2.6.32
* Wed Dec  2 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.32-0.65.rc8.git5
- 2.6.32-rc8-git5
- nuke 9p cachefiles fix, upstream.
- SLOW_WORK_PROC was renamed to SLOW_WORK_DEBUG, debugfs instead of procfs.
* Wed Dec  2 2009 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com> 2.6.32-0.64.rc8.git2
- ath9k: add fixes suggested by upstream maintainer
* Wed Dec  2 2009 David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse at intel.com> 2.6.32-0.63.rc8.git2
- forward port IOMMU fixes from F-12 for HP BIOS brokenness
- Fix oops with intel_iommu=igfx_off
- agp/intel: Clear full GTT at startup
* Wed Dec  2 2009 Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com> 2.6.32-0.62.rc8.git2
- forward port radeon fixes from F-12 + add radeon display port support
* Mon Nov 30 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.32-0.61.rc8.git2
- fix-9p-fscache.patch: fix build.
* Mon Nov 30 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.32-0.60.rc8.git2
- 2.6.32-rc8-git2 daily snapshot
- nuke include/generated nuke-age since the patch was reverted upstream
- config changes:
 - generic:
  +CONFIG_FSCACHE_OBJECT_LIST=y
  +CONFIG_SLOW_WORK_PROC=y
* Mon Nov 30 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com>
- drm-i915-fix-sync-to-vbl-when-vga-is-off.patch: add, (rhbz#541670)
* Sun Nov 29 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com>
- linux-2.6-sysrq-c.patch: drop, was made consistent upstream.
* Sat Nov 28 2009 Jarod Wilson <jarod at redhat.com> 2.6.32-0.55.rc8.git1
- add device name to lirc_zilog, fixes issues w/multiple target devices
- add lirc_imon pure input mode support for onboard decode devices
* Fri Nov 27 2009 Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com> 2.6.32-0.54.rc8.git1
- attempt to put nouveau back - same patch as F-12 should work
* Mon Nov 23 2009 Roland McGrath <roland at redhat.com>
- Install vmlinux.id file in kernel-devel rpm.
* Fri Nov 20 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com> 2.6.32-0.52.rc8.git1
- 2.6.32-rc8-git1
- Enable CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG (and HOTREMOVE) on x86_64
* Thu Nov 19 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.32-0.51.rc7.git2
- Oops, re-enable debug builds for rawhide... didn't mean to commit that.
* Thu Nov 19 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.32-0.50.rc7.git2
- Disable FUNCTION_TRACER and DYNAMIC_FTRACE in non-debug builds for
  Fedora 13. Some pondering required to see if it's actually worth doing
  though. Anecdotal evidence worth half as much as benchmarks.
  STACK_TRACER selects FUNCTION_TRACER, so it has to go off too, sadly,
  since it hooks every mcount to log the stack depth for the task.
* Thu Nov 19 2009 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.32-0.49.rc7.git2
- 2.6.32-rc7-git2
* Mon Nov 16 2009 Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com> 2.6.32-0.48.rc7.git1
- backout gpg change now that koji is fixed
* Sun Nov 15 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com> 2.6.32-0.47.rc7.git1
- Buildrequire gpg
* Sun Nov 15 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- Fix oops in VIA Padlock driver.
* Sun Nov 15 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- Linux 2.6.32-rc7-git1
* Fri Nov 13 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- Linux 2.6.32-rc7
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