Author: JT Smith
“In terms of going through the code audit almost all the sound drivers still
need fixing to lock against format changes during a read/write. Poll creating
and starting a buffer as write does and also mmap during write, write during
an mmap.”
need fixing to lock against format changes during a read/write. Poll creating
and starting a buffer as write does and also mmap during write, write during
an mmap.”
Linux 2.4.5-ac2 From: Alan CoxTo: editors@newsforge.com Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 01:33:24 +0100 (BST) ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org In terms of going through the code audit almost all the sound drivers still need fixing to lock against format changes during a read/write. Poll creating and starting a buffer as write does and also mmap during write, write during an mmap. 2.4.5-ac2 o Restore lock_kernel on umount (Al Viro) | Should cure Reiserfs crash in 2.4.5 o Fix additional scsi_ioctl leak (John Martin) o Clean up scsi_ioctl error handling (me) o Configure.help typo fixes (Nerijus Baliunas) o Fix hgafb problems with logos (Ferenc Bakonyi) o Fix lock problems in the rio driver (Rasmus Andersen) o Make new cmpci SMP safe (Carlos E Gorges) o Fix missing restore flags in soundmodem (Rasmus Andersen) o Set max sectors in ps2esdi (Paul Gortmaker) o Fix interrupt restore problems in mixcom (Rasmus Andersen) o Fix alpha compile on dp264/generic (Andrea Arcangeli) o Fix irda irport locking restores (Rasmus Andersen) o Fix failed kmalloc handling in hisax (Kai Germaschewski) o Add missing memory barrier in qlogicisp (?) o Fix missing restore_flags in eata_dma (Rasmus Andersen) o Fix procfs locking in irttp (Rasmus Andersen) o Winbond updates (Manfred Spraul) o Stop network eating PF_MEMALLOC ram (Manfred Spraul) o Drop fs/buffer.c low mem flush changes (me) o Drop changes to mm/highmem.c (me) | I don't think the Linus one is quite right but its easier | for everyone to be working off one base o Revert GFP_FAIL and some other alloc bits (me) o Hopefully fix initrd problem (me) o Fix kmalloc check in ide-tape (Rasmus Andersen) o Fix irda irtty locking (Rasmus Andersen) o Fix missing irq restore in qla1280 (Rasmus Andersen) o Fix proc/pid/mem cross exec behaviour (Arjan van de Ven) o Fix direct user space derefs in eicon (me) | From Stanford checker o Fix direct user space derefs in ipddp (me) | From Stanford checker o Fix direct user space derefs in ixj (me) | From Stanford checker o Fix direct user space derefs in decnet (me) | From Stanford checke
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