--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2004-450 2004-11-22 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 2 Name : kernel Version : 2.6.9 Release : 1.6_FC2 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. This update brings a rebase to 2.6.9, including various security fixes incorporated into the upstream kernel, and also includes Alan Cox's -ac patchset, which adds additional security fixes. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Thu Nov 18 2004 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - Drop 2.6.9 changes that broke megaraid. (#139723) - Update to 2.6.9-ac10, fixing the SATA problems (#139674) - Update the OOM-killer tamer to upstream. - Implement an RCU scheme for the SELinux AVC - Improve on the OOM-killer taming patch. - device-mapper: Remove duplicate kfree in dm_register_target error path. - Make SHA1 guard against misaligned accesses - ASPM workaround for PCIe. (#123360) - Hot-plug driver updates due to MSI change (#134290) - Workaround for 80332 IOP hot-plug problem (#139041) - ExpressCard hot-plug support for ICH6M (#131800) - Fix boot crash on VIA systems (noted on x86-64) - PPC64: Store correct backtracking info in ppc64 signal frames - PPC64: Prevent HVSI from oopsing on hangup (#137912) - Fix poor performance b/c of noncacheable mapping in 4g/4g (#130842) - Fix PCI-X hotplug issues (#132852, #134290) - Re-export force_sig() (#139503) - Various fixes for more security issues from latest -ac patch. - Fix d_find_alias brokenness (#137791) - tg3: Fix fiber hw autoneg bounces (#138738) - diskdump: Fix issue with NMI watchdog. (#138041) - diskdump: Export disk_dump_state. (#138132) - diskdump: Tickle NMI watchdog in diskdump_mdelay() (#138036) - diskdump: Fix mem= for x86-64 (#138139) - diskdump: Fix missing system_state setting. (#138130) - diskdump: Fix diskdump completion message (#138028) - Re-add aic host raid support. - Take a few more export removal patches from 2.6.10rc - SATA: Make AHCI work - SATA: Core updates. - S390: Fix Incorrect registers in core dumps. (#138206) - S390: Fix up lcs device state. (#131167) - S390: Fix possible qeth IP registration failure. - S390: Support broadcast on z800/z900 HiperSockets - S390: Allow FCP port to recover after aborted nameserver request. - Flush error in pci_mmcfg_write (#129338) - hugetlb_get_unmapped_area fix (#135364, #129525) - Fix ia64 cyclone timer on ia64 (#137842, #136684) - Fix ipv6 MTU calculation. (#130397) - ACPI: Don't display messages about ACPI breakpoints. (#135856) - Fix x86_64 copy_user_generic (#135655) - lockd: remove hardcoded maximum NLM cookie length - Fix SCSI bounce limit - Disable polling mode on hotplug controllers in favour of interrupt driven. (#138737) --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/2/ 66ab5382ed9eec4982fc402d6ce4f9bf SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-1.6_FC2.src.rpm 401f7fa645779cc90d496b646aeea273 x86_64/kernel-2.6.9-1.6_FC2.x86_64.rpm 1c19136bce772dc221f6870ccfbbefa6 x86_64/kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.6_FC2.x86_64.rpm 0cd4b464f8ed4b69e4619d0c82f52d9e x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-1.6_FC2.x86_64.rpm 7fcd816a030aad2cf1e6ab5b60202835 x86_64/kernel-sourcecode-2.6.9-1.6_FC2.noarch.rpm db300bdf5e4a41c9652ce4b9ca4ff7fc x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.9-1.6_FC2.noarch.rpm 6342fa5a3f23a27be3b1cadf50d6cc65 i386/kernel-2.6.9-1.6_FC2.i586.rpm 2732787265b857fb428341dfd8d127e2 i386/kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.6_FC2.i586.rpm f8ebb80a0b184c000f81cd3dc177a5d4 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-1.6_FC2.i586.rpm a143a0c9bd6ce972bd5019edb2317de1 i386/kernel-2.6.9-1.6_FC2.i686.rpm bfcc2673b0cd246de0ef5f29173392ad i386/kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.6_FC2.i686.rpm b96f00956a40ba467506d8fce61fea49 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-1.6_FC2.i686.rpm 7fcd816a030aad2cf1e6ab5b60202835 i386/kernel-sourcecode-2.6.9-1.6_FC2.noarch.rpm db300bdf5e4a41c9652ce4b9ca4ff7fc i386/kernel-doc-2.6.9-1.6_FC2.noarch.rpm This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command. --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- fedora-announce-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list
