[Maverick] SRU: Update to 2.6.35.6 stable kernel

Leann Ogasawara leann.ogasawara at canonical.com
Tue Sep 28 00:24:40 UTC 2010


https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/649208

SRU Justification

Impact:

The upstream process for stable tree updates is quite similar in scope
to the Ubuntu SRU process, e.g., each patch has to demonstrably fix a
bug, and each patch is vetted by upstream by originating either directly
from Linus' tree or in a minimally backported form of that patch. The
2.6.35.6 upstream stable patch set is now available. It should be
included in the Ubuntu kernel as well.

    http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.35.6
    http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/patch-2.6.35.6.bz2

Test Case: TBD

A full preview of the patch set can be found at:

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ogasawara/ubuntu-maverick.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/stable

I intend to upload a test kernel to my kernel-ppa once we've resolved LP
Bug 645653:

https://launchpad.net/~leannogasawara/+archive/kernel-ppa
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/645653

Additionally, the following patch was applied to 2.6.35.6 upstream
stable as a combination of two upstream commits which required
additional backporting.  We'd already applied this commit as 3 separate
clean upstream cherry-picks so I've chosen to skip the stable patch in
favor of the cleaner upstream cherry-picks:

 * intel_agp, drm/i915: Add all sandybridge graphics devices support

The following patches are in the 2.6.35.6 stable release:

 * usb: musb_debugfs: don't use the struct file private_data field with seq_files
 * USB: serial/mos*: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory
 * bridge: Clear INET control block of SKBs passed into ip_fragment().
 * gro: fix different skb headrooms
 * gro: Re-fix different skb headrooms
 * irda: Correctly clean up self->ias_obj on irda_bind() failure.
 * rds: fix a leak of kernel memory
 * net: RPS needs to depend upon USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
 * tcp: Combat per-cpu skew in orphan tests.
 * tcp: fix three tcp sysctls tuning
 * tcp: select(writefds) don't hang up when a peer close connection
 * tcp: Prevent overzealous packetization by SWS logic.
 * udp: add rehash on connect()
 * UNIX: Do not loop forever at unix_autobind().
 * l2tp: test for ethernet header in l2tp_eth_dev_recv()
 * net: blackhole route should always be recalculated
 * sparc64: Get rid of indirect p1275 PROM call buffer.
 * drivers/net/usb/hso.c: prevent reading uninitialized memory
 * drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory
 * drivers/net/eql.c: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory
 * bonding: correctly process non-linear skbs
 * Staging: vt6655: fix buffer overflow
 * net/llc: make opt unsigned in llc_ui_setsockopt()
 * mm: fix swapin race condition
 * mm: further fix swapin race condition
 * virtio: console: Prevent userspace from submitting NULL buffers
 * virtio: console: Fix poll blocking even though there is data to read
 * intel_agp, drm/i915: Add all sandybridge graphics devices support
 * agp/intel: fix physical address mask bits for sandybridge
 * agp/intel: fix dma mask bits on sandybridge
 * hw breakpoints: Fix pid namespace bug
 * pid: make setpgid() system call use RCU read-side critical section
 * sched: Fix user time incorrectly accounted as system time on 32-bit
 * oprofile: Add Support for Intel CPU Family 6 / Model 22 (Intel Celeron 540)
 * drm/i915,agp/intel: Add second set of PCI-IDs for B43
 * bdi: Initialize noop_backing_dev_info properly
 * char: Mark /dev/zero and /dev/kmem as not capable of writeback
 * drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c: fix build with older gcc's
 * mmap: call unlink_anon_vmas() in __split_vma() in case of error
 * drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory
 * rtc: s3c: balance state changes of wakeup flag
 * Prevent freeing uninitialized pointer in compat_do_readv_writev
 * /proc/vmcore: fix seeking
 * vmscan: check all_unreclaimable in direct reclaim path
 * percpu: fix pcpu_last_unit_cpu
 * aio: do not return ERESTARTSYS as a result of AIO
 * aio: check for multiplication overflow in do_io_submit
 * x86 platform drivers: hp-wmi Reorder event id processing
 * GFS2: gfs2_logd should be using interruptible waits
 * drm/nv50: initialize ramht_refs list for faked 0 channel
 * inotify: send IN_UNMOUNT events
 * SCSI: mptsas: fix hangs caused by ATA pass-through
 * KVM: Keep slot ID in memory slot structure
 * KVM: Prevent internal slots from being COWed
 * KVM: MMU: fix direct sp's access corrupted
 * KVM: x86: emulator: inc/dec can have lock prefix
 * KVM: MMU: fix mmu notifier invalidate handler for huge spte
 * KVM: VMX: Fix host GDT.LIMIT corruption
 * IA64: fix siglock
 * IA64: Optimize ticket spinlocks in fsys_rt_sigprocmask
 * KEYS: Fix RCU no-lock warning in keyctl_session_to_parent()
 * KEYS: Fix bug in keyctl_session_to_parent() if parent has no session keyring
 * xfs: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory
 * drivers/video/via/ioctl.c: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory
 * AT91: change dma resource index
 * PM: Prevent waiting forever on asynchronous resume after failing suspend
 * PM / Hibernate: Avoid hitting OOM during preallocation of memory
 * x86, asm: Use a lower case name for the end macro in atomic64_386_32.S
 * ALSA: hda - Fix beep frequency on IDT 92HD73xx and 92HD71Bxx codecs
 * Fix call to replaced SuperIO functions
 * dell-wmi: Add support for eject key on Dell Studio 1555
 * mm: page allocator: drain per-cpu lists after direct reclaim allocation fails
 * mm: page allocator: calculate a better estimate of NR_FREE_PAGES when memory is low and kswapd is awake
 * mm: page allocator: update free page counters after pages are placed on the free list
 * guard page for stacks that grow upwards
 * Fix unprotected access to task credentials in waitid()
 * sctp: Do not reset the packet during sctp_packet_config().
 * drm/i915: Ensure that the crtcinfo is populated during mode_fixup()
 * alpha: Fix printk format errors
 * Linux 2.6.35.6






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