--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2004-451 2004-11-22 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 3 Name : kernel Version : 2.6.9 Release : 1.681_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. This update brings an updated -ac patch which which adds several security fixes, and various other fixes that have occured since the release of Fedora Core 3. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Thu Nov 18 2004 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> - 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/3/ fff96ff2565c3a5cb78b27f2f28aaed0 SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.src.rpm 530bd462808c3bbf884d242fbf75873b x86_64/kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.x86_64.rpm b61a4e076428e74dc291e491e04ab855 x86_64/kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.x86_64.rpm d277be6919be79dee6f6f5478656767b x86_64/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.x86_64.rpm e9542fc23684fc96577df39d0735c3bc x86_64/kernel-doc-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.noarch.rpm 41bd1320f969ef466aee25b2bea30d86 i386/kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.i586.rpm c379783ce8fa2b7e52e9b3803d61f6c6 i386/kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.i586.rpm 7e6103e46c12c786dea6f054d81168ac i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.i586.rpm 0cc46081473d669be805b3ad62962ec2 i386/kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.i686.rpm 3036125fbd9ea2c314bc1a4373abc250 i386/kernel-smp-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.i686.rpm 2e0c4cc91c78919e557cea1b8cf42f30 i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.i686.rpm e9542fc23684fc96577df39d0735c3bc i386/kernel-doc-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.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
