Fedora Core 3 Test Update: kernel-2.6.11-1.27_FC3

[David A. De Graaf]

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 12:57:57AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
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> Fedora Test Update Notification
> FEDORA-2005-379
> 2005-05-17
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> 
> Product     : Fedora Core 3
> Name        : kernel
> Version     : 2.6.11
> Release     : 1.27_FC3
> Summary     : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system)
> 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.
> 
> Due to the collection of security fixes piling up, this is going
> to go out as an update in the next few days unless someone finds
> something catastrophically wrong with it.


It certainly would be wonderful if the NFS fix provided by Henrik
Grubbstrom (grubba at grubba.org) for Bugzilla #14456 and #150759 were
included.  This simple patch to linux/fs/ext3/namei.c corrects an
insidious bug that makes NFS randomly useless.

Maybe it has been included already.  Has it?


> 
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> 
> * Tue May 17 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
> - Remove the unused (and outdated) Xen patches from the FC3 tree.
> 
> * Mon May 16 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
> - Rebase to 2.6.11.10, (fixing CAN-2005-1264)
> 
> * Thu May 12 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
> - Rebase to 2.6.11.9, (fixing CAN-2005-1263)
> 
> * Tue May 10 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
> - Fix two bugs in x86-64 page fault handler.
> 
> * Mon May  9 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
> - Rebase to 2.6.11.8
> | Fixes CAN-2005-1368 (local DoS in key lookup). (#156680)
> | Fixes CAN-2005-1369 (i2c alarms sysfs DoS). (#156683)
> - Merge IDE fixes from 2.6.11-ac7
> - Add Conflicts for older IPW firmwares.
> - Fix conntrack leak with raw sockets.
> 
> * Sun May  1 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
> - Various firewire fixes backported from -mm. (#133798)
> (Thanks to Jody McIntyre for doing this)
> 
> * Fri Apr 29 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
> - fix oops in aacraid open when using adaptec tools. (#148761)
> - Blacklist another brainless SCSI scanner. (#155457)
> 
> * Thu Apr 21 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
> - Fix up SCSI queue locking. (#155472)
> 
> * Tue Apr 19 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
> - SCSI tape security: require CAP_ADMIN for SG_IO etc. (#155355)
> 
> * Mon Apr 18 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
> - Retry more aggressively during USB device initialization
> 
> * Thu Apr 14 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
> - Build DRM modular. (#154769)
> 
> * Fri Apr  8 2005 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
> - Disable Longhaul driver (again).
> 
> 
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> This update can be downloaded from:
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/3/
> 
> e14dcd5e8c520e6afe51b4d6f8317ebb  SRPMS/kernel-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.src.rpm
> 2b654539762a42e2a761ec65b5bc1c30  x86_64/kernel-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.x86_64.rpm
> f34938e71d5b7e43247fe11d85bf3e67  x86_64/kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.x86_64.rpm
> 0620f2eaa09eebafdc56e06f07f3c697  x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.x86_64.rpm
> a95d2fa3a36398a6a7247ef2e48070d0  x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.noarch.rpm
> 3a204dfa66c6e81d53c4668d8fa4c501  i386/kernel-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.i586.rpm
> a40fdcc57195f0607a39a6ff9988c980  i386/kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.i586.rpm
> 0a4d7db03690e0ed7c165dc6c4f11c99  i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.i586.rpm
> 2f4a0c52eac96d13f0b31ec759693ac8  i386/kernel-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.i686.rpm
> 0fc7abe2226243524c656cae43367d67  i386/kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.i686.rpm
> 8d3ef1f8020d3ede403c747c24e8d8e0  i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.i686.rpm
> a95d2fa3a36398a6a7247ef2e48070d0  i386/kernel-doc-2.6.11-1.27_FC3.noarch.rpm
> 
> This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
> launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.  You may
> need to edit your up2date channels configuration.  Within
> /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources enable the following line:
> yum updates-testing http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/3/$ARCH
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