From nobody Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 08:20:16 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] [BLOCK] limit request_fn recursion
+Subject: [BLOCK] limit request_fn recursion
Don't recurse back into the driver even if the unplug threshold is met,
when the driver asks for a requeue. This is both silly from a logical
From nobody Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 13:28:52 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] [Cardman 40x0] Fix udev device creation
+Subject: [Cardman 40x0] Fix udev device creation
This patch corrects the order of the calls to register_chrdev() and
pcmcia_register_driver(). Now udev correctly creates userspace device
From nobody Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 09:43:55 -0700
-Subject: [PATCH] VIA quirk fixup, additional PCI IDs
+Subject: VIA quirk fixup, additional PCI IDs
An earlier commit (75cf7456dd87335f574dcd53c4ae616a2ad71a11) changed an
overly-zealous PCI quirk to only poke those VIA devices that need it.
From nobody Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:57:09 -0700
-Subject: [PATCH] PCI quirk: VIA IRQ fixup should only run for VIA southbridges
+Subject: PCI quirk: VIA IRQ fixup should only run for VIA southbridges
Alan Cox pointed out that the VIA 'IRQ fixup' was erroneously running
on my system which has no VIA southbridge (but I do have a VIA IEEE
From nobody Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 02:35:48 -0700
-Subject: [PATCH] add migratepage address space op to shmem
+Subject: add migratepage address space op to shmem
Basic problem: pages of a shared memory segment can only be migrated once.
From nobody Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Date: Sun May 7 10:49:33 2006 -0700
-Subject: [PATCH] Fix ptrace_attach()/ptrace_traceme()/de_thread() race
+Subject: Fix ptrace_attach()/ptrace_traceme()/de_thread() race
This holds the task lock (and, for ptrace_attach, the tasklist_lock)
over the actual attach event, which closes a race between attacking to a
From: akpm@osdl.org
To: torvalds@osdl.org
Cc: stable@kernel.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, adobriyan@gmail.com, drepper@redhat.com
-Subject: [PATCH] fs/compat.c: fix 'if (a |= b )' typo
+Subject: fs/compat.c: fix 'if (a |= b )' typo
From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
From nobody Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 02:30:55 -0800
-Subject: [PATCH] fs/locks.c: Fix sys_flock() race
+Subject: fs/locks.c: Fix sys_flock() race
sys_flock() currently has a race which can result in a double free in the
multi-thread case.
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: Marcel Holtmann <holtmann@redhat.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>, Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>, Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
-Subject: [PATCH] Netfilter: do_add_counters race, possible oops or info leak (CVE-2006-0039)
+Subject: Netfilter: do_add_counters race, possible oops or info leak (CVE-2006-0039)
Solar Designer found a race condition in do_add_counters(). The beginning
of paddc is supposed to be the same as tmp which was sanity-checked
From nobody Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 12:16:08 -0700
-Subject: [PATCH] page migration: Fix fallback behavior for dirty pages
+Subject: page migration: Fix fallback behavior for dirty pages
Currently we check PageDirty() in order to make the decision to swap out
the page. However, the dirty information may be only be contained in the
From nobody Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Date: Thu May 11 11:08:49 2006 -0700
-Subject: [PATCH] ptrace_attach: fix possible deadlock schenario with irqs
+Subject: ptrace_attach: fix possible deadlock schenario with irqs
Eric Biederman points out that we can't take the task_lock while holding
tasklist_lock for writing, because another CPU that holds the task lock
From nobody Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 02:43:12 -0700
-Subject: [PATCH] Remove cond_resched in gather_stats()
+Subject: Remove cond_resched in gather_stats()
gather_stats() is called with a spinlock held from check_pte_range. We
cannot reschedule with a lock held.
From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
To: stable@kernel.org
Cc:
-Subject: [PATCH] scx200_acb: Fix resource name use after free
+Subject: scx200_acb: Fix resource name use after free
We can't pass a string on the stack to request_region. As soon as we
leave the function that stack is gone and the string is lost. Let's
From nobody Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 09:43:48 -0700
-Subject: [PATCH] selinux: check for failed kmalloc in security_sid_to_context()
+Subject: selinux: check for failed kmalloc in security_sid_to_context()
Check for NULL kmalloc return value before writing to it.
From: akpm@osdl.org
To: torvalds@osdl.org
Cc: jan@gondor.com, stable@kernel.org
-Subject: [PATCH] smbfs: Fix slab corruption in samba error path
+Subject: smbfs: Fix slab corruption in samba error path
From: Jan Niehusmann <jan@gondor.com>
From: akpm@osdl.org
To: torvalds@osdl.org
Cc: pavel@suse.cz, c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net, stable@kernel.org
-Subject: [PATCH] smbus unhiding kills thermal management
+Subject: smbus unhiding kills thermal management
From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net>
From nobody Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Date: Fri May 12 12:49:08 2006 -0700
-Subject: [PATCH] TG3: ethtool always report port is TP.
+Subject: TG3: ethtool always report port is TP.
Even with fiber cards ethtool reports that the connected port is TP,
the patch fix this.
Message-Id: <200605021959.k42JxLiZ015749@hera.kernel.org>
From: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
To: git-commits-head@vger.kernel.org
-Subject: [PATCH] via-rhine: zero pad short packets on Rhine I ethernet cards
+Subject: via-rhine: zero pad short packets on Rhine I ethernet cards
From: Craig Brind <craigbrind@gmail.com>
projects / thirdparty / kernel / stable-queue.git / commitdiff
