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kernel-doc - Various documentation bits found in the kernel source.

License: GPLv2
Vendor: Scientific Linux
Description:
This package contains documentation files from the kernel
source. Various bits of information about the Linux kernel and the
device drivers shipped with it are documented in these files.

You'll want to install this package if you need a reference to the
options that can be passed to Linux kernel modules at load time.

Packages

kernel-doc-2.6.9-100.EL.noarch [2.3 MiB] Changelog by Vivek Goyal (2011-02-01):
-cxgb3: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory to fix xgb_extension_ioctl infoleak (Eugene Teo) [633153] {CVE-2010-3296}
-mlx4: disable MSI-X by default (Andy Gospodarek) [530596]
-ext3: call fs's invalidatepage instead of block_invalidatepage (Josef Bacik) [488611]
-av7110: check for negative array offset (Mauro Carvalho Chehab) [672400] {CVE-2011-0521}
-ext3: don't dirty unmapped data buffers (Josef Bacik) [488611]
-net: clear heap allocations for privileged ethtool actions (Jiri Pirko) [672431] {CVE-2010-4655}
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.35.1.EL.noarch [2.3 MiB] Changelog by Don Howard (2011-01-04):
-unix: fix local socket dos (Neil Horman) [656757 656758] {CVE-2010-4249}
-serial: clean data before filling it (Mauro Carvalho Chehab) [648808 648809]
-net: fix reception of completely page backed sk_buffs (Andy Gospodarek) [664667 500921]
-net: filter: make sure filters dont read uninitialized memory (Jiri Pirko) [651700 651701] {CVE-2010-4158}
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.33.1.EL.noarch [2.3 MiB] Changelog by Don Howard (2010-11-15):
-net: sctp: do not reset the packet during sctp_packet_config() (Jiri Pirko) [637864 637865] {CVE-2010-3432}
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.31.1.EL.noarch [2.3 MiB] Changelog by Don Howard (2010-10-04):
-netpoll: fix more local_bh_enable() related badness warnings and infinite loop (Neil Horman) [637729 516076]
-netpoll: fix badness warnings as bottom halves are enabled but interrupts are not (Neil Horman) [637729 516076]
-aio: check for multiplication overflow in io_submit (Jeff Moyer) [629446 629447] {CVE-2010-3067}
-fs: buffer.c: fix race in __block_prepare_write (Jeff Moyer) [633968 480404]
-net: fix info leak in police code (Neil Horman) [636389 636390] {CVE-2010-3477}
-udp: use memory barrier in datagram_poll (Flavio Leitner) [640117 546251]
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.29.1.EL.noarch [2.3 MiB] Changelog by Don Howard (2010-09-24):
- [misc] make compat_alloc_user_space incorporate access_ok (Don Howard) [634461 634462] {CVE-2010-3081}
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.29.EL.noarch [2.3 MiB] Changelog by Don Howard (2010-08-31):
-mm: keep a guard page below a grow-down stack segment (Don Howard) [607855 607856] {CVE-2010-2240}
-mm: accept an abutting stack segment (Don Howard) [607855 607856] {CVE-2010-2240}
-mm: fix up some user-visible effects of stack guard page (Don Howard) [607855 607856] {CVE-2010-2240}
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.28.EL.noarch [2.3 MiB] Changelog by Don Howard (2010-07-22):
-sky2: fix 88e803x transmit lockup on Yukon-FE chipset (Don Howard) [617353 614559]
-nfsd4: bug in read_buf when it is called to move over to next page (Jiri Olsa) [612032 612033] {CVE-2010-2521}
-cifs: fix a kernel BUG with remote OS/2 server (Eugene Teo) [608585 608586] {CVE-2010-2248}
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.26.EL.noarch [2.3 MiB] Changelog by Vitaly Mayatskikh (2010-05-30):
-pci: fix reference to dev->bus->pad2 in pcix_set_mmrbc() (Dean Nelson) [596374 499355]
-pci: cleanup error return for pcix get and set mmrbc functions (Dean Nelson) [596374 499355]
-pci: fix access of pci_x_cmd by pcix get and set mmrbc functions (Dean Nelson) [596374 499355]
-pci: fix return value from pcix_get_max_mmrbc (Dean Nelson) [596374 499355]
-sctp: fix skb_over_panic from processing too many unknown params (Neil Horman) [584655 584656] {CVE2010-1173}
-kernel: keyrings: find_keyring_by_name() can gain the freed keyring (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [585097 585098] {CVE-2010-1437}
-virtio: net refill on out of memory (Herbert Xu) [597310 589897]
-net: pkt_sched: fix sfq qdisc crashes with limit of 2 packets (Jiri Pirko) [597312 587644]
-nfs: make sure client returns updated d_type info in getdents responses (Jeff Layton) [596372 577378]
-vfs: force reval of target when following last_bind symlinks (Jeff Layton) [533118 533119] {CVE-2009-3726}
-nfsv4: fix a problem whereby a buggy server can oops the kernel (Jeff Layton) [533118 533119] {CVE-2009-3726}
-nfsd4: move special stateid processing to nfs4_preprocess_stateid_op() (Jeff Layton) [597314 517162]
-nfsd4: move nfserr_openmode checking from nfsd_read/write into nfs4_preprocess_stateid_op() (Jeff Layton) [597314 517162]
-time drift due to incorrect accounting of lost ticks if tick_divider > 1 (Ulrich Obergfell) [590551 579716]
-jbd: properly discard freed buffers after commit (Josef Bacik) [589155 571546]
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.25.EL.noarch [2.3 MiB] Changelog by Vitaly Mayatskikh (2010-04-19):
-net: fix an unexpectedly freed skb in tcp (Amerigo Wang) [577715 577716] {CVE-2010-1188}
-net: fixup problems with vlan tagging and bonding driver option arp_validate=3 (Jiri Pirko) [580842 555070]
-virtio_net: fix tx wakeup race condition (Herbert Xu) [580089 574785]
-vfs: turn bad_inode_ops into an inode_operations_ext (Jeff Layton) [582908 544381]
-oprofile: Support arch_perfmon in Oprofile (John Villalovos) [582913 553745]
-oprofile: Fix name collision issue in Oprofile (John Villalovos) [582913 553745]
-oprofile: Fixes for the perf counter reservation system in Oprofile (John Villalovos) [582913 553745]
-oprofile: Enable use of the perf counter reservation system into the oprofile driver (John Villalovos) [582913 553745]
-oprofile: final bits to support oprofile on Nehalem-EP (John Villalovos) [582241 509423]
-virt: fix i386 virtio driver crash (Chris Lalancette) [582911 509220]
-xen: fix pv guest crash when host has more than 64g ram (Chris Lalancette) [574392 504988]
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.23.EL.noarch [2.3 MiB] Changelog by Vitaly Mayatskikh (2010-03-05):
-e1000e: fix broken wake up on LAN functionality due to other e1000e patch (Andy Gospodarek) [565496 558607]
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.20.EL.noarch [2.3 MiB] Changelog by Vitaly Mayatskikh (2010-01-15):
-improved rx length check for r8169 (Neil Horman) [556406 550911]
-isdn: hfc_usb: fix read buffer overflow in collect_rx_frame() (Danny Feng) [539436 539437] {CVE-2009-4005}
-megaraid_sas: fix dbg_lvl and poll_mode_io file permissions in sysfs (Danny Feng) [537310 537311] {CVE-2009-3889 CVE-2009-3939}
-hfs: fix a potential buffer overflow (Amerigo Wang) [540738 540739] {CVE-2009-4020}
-gdth: prevent negative offsets in ioctl (Amerigo Wang) [539418 539419] {CVE-2009-3080}
-ptrace: ptrace_detach can leak a zombie (Oleg Nesterov) [555869 539506]
-strace: strace hangs when the mt tracee does coredump (Oleg Nesterov) [555869 539506]
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.19.EL.noarch [2.3 MiB] Changelog by Anton Arapov (2009-12-30):
-net: fix rx length check errors in e1000e (Cong Wang) [551218 551214] {CVE-2009-e1000e}
-net: fix rx length check errors in e1000 and r8169 (Neil Horman) [550910 550907] {CVE-2009-e1000} {CVE-2009-r8169}
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.18.EL.noarch [2.3 MiB] Changelog by Vitaly Mayatskikh (2009-11-25):
-i8042: regression fix: disable and enable aux port at close (Mauro Carvalho Chehab) [537344 531192]
-r8169: balance pci_map/unmap pair, use hw padding (Ivan Vecera) [529141 529142] {CVE-2009-3613}
-forcedeth: add phy_power_down parameter, leave phy powered up by default (Ivan Vecera) [534112 532593]
-fusion: mptctl module dereferences a userspace address, triggering a crash (Rob Evers) [533798 528066]
-net: ipv4: make ip_append_data handle null routing table (Jiri Pirko) [537016 520299]
-bnx2x: fix bnx2x failing when iptables is on (Stanislaw Gruszka) [537013 527656]
-nlm: don't try to reclaim locks on -o nolock mounts (Jeff Layton) [537017 176848]
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.16.EL.noarch [2.3 MiB] Changelog by Vitaly Mayatskikh (2009-10-27):
-fs: fix pipe null pointer dereference (Jeff Moyer) [530936 530937] {CVE-2009-3547}
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.15.EL.noarch [2.3 MiB] Changelog by Vitaly Mayatskikh (2009-10-10):
-fix typo in "-net: netlink: fix numerous padding memleaks" (Jiri Pirko) [521602 521603] {CVE-2005-4881}
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.11.EL.noarch [2.3 MiB] Changelog by Vitaly Mayatskikh (2009-08-31):
-execve: must clear current->clear_child_tid (Oleg Nesterov) [515427 515428] {CVE-2009-2848}
-kernel: fix information leak in do_sigaltstack() (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [515394 515395] {CVE-2009-2847}
-build with fno-delete-null-pointer-checks (Danny Feng) [517964 511183]
-lpfc: update emulex lpfc driver to 8.0.16.47 with memory leak fix (Rob Evers) [513192 507680]
-mpt fusion: fix typo in mpt fusion makefile (Tomas Henzl) [516184 496120]
-implement mmap_min_addr infrastructure (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [517904 512641]
-kernel: personality handling: fix per_clear_on_setid (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [511172 508843] {CVE-2009-1895}
-megaraid: fix megaraid SAS tape input/output errors on mt_erase (Tomas Henzl) [517965 504080]
-kernel: missing capability check in z90crypt (Hans-Joachim Picht) [505985 505986] {CVE-2009-1883}
-qla2xxx: fix hang when using management tools (Marcus Barrow) [519428 503489]
-kernel: random: make get_random_int more random (Amerigo Wang) [519692 499785]
-fix __ptrace_unlink and zap_threads interaction (Oleg Nesterov) [519446 506875]
-fix soft lockups due to infinite loops in posix_locks_deadlock (Amerigo Wang) [519429 504279]
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.9.EL.noarch [2.3 MiB] Changelog by Vitaly Mayatskikh (2009-08-19):
-net: prevent null pointer dereference in udp_sendmsg (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [518041 518042] {CVE-2009-2698}
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.7.EL.noarch [2.3 MiB] Changelog by Vitaly Mayatskikh (2009-08-05):
-Revert: eliminate deadlock with echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches (Larry Woodman) [505649 495861]
kernel-doc-2.6.9-89.0.3.EL.noarch [2.3 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Olsa (2009-06-13):
-agp: zero pages before sending to userspace (Jiri Olsa) [497023 497024] {CVE-2009-1192}
-agp: fix boot issue with agp zero pages patch (Jiri Olsa) [497023 497024] {CVE-2009-1192}
-e1000: fix skb_over_panic (Neil Horman) [502982 502983] {CVE-2009-1385}
-kernel: proc: avoid information leaks to non privileged processes (Amerigo Wang) [499549 499548]
-netpoll: bust poll_lock when doing netdump (Neil Horman) [504565 494688]
kernel-doc-2.6.9-78.0.22.EL.noarch [2.2 MiB] Changelog by Don Howard (2009-04-24):
-nmi watchdog: fix LAPIC mode detection on cpus with supported performance counters (John Villalovos) [497330 491338]
kernel-doc-2.6.9-78.0.17.EL.noarch [2.2 MiB] Changelog by Vitaly Mayatskikh (2009-03-05):
-respin: added missing patches from build 78.0.15
kernel-doc-2.6.9-78.0.13.EL.noarch [2.2 MiB] Changelog by Don Howard (2009-01-07):
-net: fix unix socket panic patch missing hunk (Neil Horman) [473267 473268] {CVE-2008-5300}
kernel-doc-2.6.9-78.0.8.EL.noarch [2.2 MiB] Changelog by Vitaly Mayatskikh (2008-11-05):
-pwc: fix kernel pwc driver dos (Eugene Teo) [308501 308511] {CVE-2007-5093}
-[s390] prevent ptrace padding area read write in 31 bit mode (Jarod Wilson) [437932 438148] {CVE-2008-1514}
-ext[234]: avoid printk floods in the face of directory corruption (Eric Sandeen) [459598 459599] {CVE-2008-3528}
-kernel: open call allows setgid bit when user is not in new file's group (Eugene Teo) [463685 463686] {CVE-2008-4210}
-cifs: fix o_append on directio mounts (Jeff Layton) [464494 461005]
-ixgbe: remove device id for unsupported device (Andy Gospodarek) [465735 456533]
-aacraid: remove quirk aac_quirk_scsi_32 for some controllers (Tomas Henzl) [468151 457552]
-mptfusion: mpt causes panic if a raid 1 is configured (Tomas Henzl) [465265 469236]
-cpufreq: support for affected_cpus (Brian Maly) [469647 465366]
kernel-doc-2.6.9-78.0.1.EL.noarch [2.2 MiB] Changelog by Vitaly Mayatskikh (2008-07-22):
-alsa: use proper mask for shared IRQ in hda_intel (Brian Maly) [456163 456155]
-kernel: randomize udp port allocation (Eugene Teo) [454569 454570] {CVE-2008-1447}
-usb: fix front usb ports on dell r805 (Pete Zaitcev) [456297 454479]
-Revert "sys_times: Fix system unresponsiveness during many concurrent invocation of sys_times" (Vivek Goyal) [455074 453507]
-Revert "Minor code cleanup to sys_times() call" (Vivek Goyal) [455074 453507]
kernel-doc-2.6.9-78.EL.noarch [2.2 MiB] Changelog by Vivek Goyal (2008-07-09):
-alsa: Fix mic not working for HP XW series (Brian Maly) [453783]
kernel-doc-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL.noarch [2.2 MiB] Changelog by Vitaly Mayatskikh (2008-07-11):
-[revert] sys_times: Fix system unresponsiveness during many concurrent invocation of sys_times (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [449101 435280]
kernel-doc-2.6.9-67.0.20.EL.noarch [2.2 MiB] Changelog by Vitaly Mayatskikh (2008-06-16):
-x8664: copy_user doesn't zero tail bytes on page fault (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [451273 451274]
kernel-doc-2.6.9-67.0.15.EL.noarch [2.2 MiB] Changelog by Vitaly Mayatskikh (2008-04-22):
-fix kabi breakage in 67.0.14
kernel-doc-2.6.9-67.0.7.EL.noarch [2.2 MiB] Changelog by Vitaly Mayatskikh (2008-02-27):
-x86_64: Prevent iounmap from sleeping with a spinlock held (Larry Woodman) [433267]
kernel-doc-2.6.9-67.0.4.EL.noarch [2.2 MiB] Changelog by Vitaly Mayatskikh (2008-01-18):
-fix filesystem corruption by unprivileged user via directory truncation (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [428794] {CVE-2008-0001}
-ia64: fix panic caused by set_mempolicy with MPOL_BIND (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [293201] {CVE-2007-4130}
kernel-doc-2.6.9-67.0.1.EL.noarch [2.2 MiB] Changelog by Vitaly Mayatskikh (2007-11-30):
-kernel ieee80211 off-by-two integer underflow (Anton Arapov) [346361] {CVE-2007-4997}
-fix for NFS attribute timeout handling (Fabio Leite) [371551]
-fix bad schedule_timeout() call causing excessive delay (Jonathan Brassow) [399661]
-do not return zero in mmap (Rik van Riel) [400811]
-fs: fix missing dput in do_lookup error case leaks dentries (Eric Sandeen) [363461] {CVE-2007-5494}
-s390: fix LTC39618-kernel panic making lcs interfaces online on LPAR (Hans-Joachim Picht) [400801]
-x86_64: Fix incorrect logic in AMD NMI code (Prarit Bhargava) [404741]
-scsi: fix diskdump performance regression on mpt fustion driver (Takao Indoh) [404781]
kernel-doc-2.6.9-55.0.12.EL.noarch [2.2 MiB] Changelog by Vitaly Mayatskikh (2007-10-17):
- update: deadlock from recursive call through netpoll_send_skb (Neil Horman) [328351]
- fix machine check errors with Clovertown G0-step CPU (Geoff Gustafson) [320791]
- fix disable block layer bouncing for most memory on 64bit systems (Jim Paradis) [330111]
kernel-doc-2.6.9-55.0.9.EL.noarch [2.2 MiB] Changelog by Vitaly Mayatskikh (2007-09-25):
- revert: all patches from 2.6.9-55.0.7
kernel-doc-2.6.9-55.0.6.EL.noarch [2.2 MiB] Changelog by Don Howard (2007-08-23):
-revert: autofs4 fix for race between mount and expire [248126]
kernel-doc-2.6.9-55.0.2.EL.noarch [2.2 MiB] Changelog by Jason Baron (2007-06-12):
-cciss: fix size calculation in diskdump (Bryn Reeves) [243902]
kernel-doc-2.6.9-42.0.10.EL.noarch [2.1 MiB] Changelog by Jason Baron (2007-02-16):
-fix key serial number collision problem (David Howells) [227495] {CVE-2007-0006}
-fix audit panic on watched files (Eric Paris) [223129] {CVE-2007-0001}
kernel-doc-2.6.9-42.0.8.EL.noarch [2.1 MiB] Changelog by Jason Baron (2007-01-22):
-fix ext2 readdir f_pos revalidation logic (David Milburn) [193877]
kernel-doc-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL.noarch [2.1 MiB] Changelog by Jason Baron (2006-09-25):
-fix mprotect to not allow permission subversion (Jason Baron) [190073] {CVE-2006-2071}
-fix sys_perfmonctl() file descriptor reference count issue (Anil Keshavamurthy) [204360] {CVE-2006-3741}
-Fix hugepage crash on failing mmap (Larry Woodman) [165345] {CVE-2005-4811}
-sctp: create abort messages properly (Neil Horman) [204460] {CVE-2006-4535}
-fix oops occuring from malformed ULE packet (Neil Horman) [204912] {CVE-2006-4623}
-ipw2[12]00: restore get_wireless_stats pointer (John Linville) [198820]
-ipw2200: accept broadcast MAC traffic (John Linville) [203421]
-fix netfilter do_add_counters race (Thomas Graf) [191698] {CVE-2006-0039}
-fix ip over atm clip_mkip may dereference freed pointer (Thomas Graf) [206265]
-ppc64: Clear EN_ATTN bit in PPC970 HID0 (David Woodhouse) [201684] {CVE-2006-4093}
kernel-doc-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL.noarch [2.1 MiB] Changelog by Jason Baron (2006-08-17):
-sctp: Fix data overflow in iovec computation (Neil Horman) [202122]
kernel-doc-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL.noarch [2.1 MiB] Changelog by Jason Baron (2006-06-28):
-restrict prctl() syscall to setting PR_SET_DUMPABLE to 0 or 1 (Ernie Petrides) [195902] {CVE-2006-2451}
kernel-doc-2.6.9-34.0.1.EL.noarch [2.1 MiB] Changelog by Jason Baron (2006-05-17):
-ipv6: fix possible infinite loop condition (Thomas Graf) [170772] {CVE-2005-2973}
-fix incorrect inrement/decrement in atm module (Thomas Graf) [175769] {CVE-2005-3359}
-fix for ELF exec vulnerability on EM64T (Ernie Petrides) [183489 175663] {CVE-2006-0741 CVE-2006-0744}
-Keys: Fix oops when adding key to non-keyring (David Howells) [188466] {CVE-2006-1522}
-fix lsof causes kernel oops under heavy load (Adam Stokes) [189260]
-nfs: fix client panic using O_DIRECT (Steve Dickson) [181795] {CVE-2006-0555}
-Fix panic in ip_route_input() via inet_rtm_getroute() (Thomas Graf) [189346] {CVE-2006-1525}
-LSM: add missing hooks to readv/writev (James Morris) [191524]
-fix smbfs chroot issue (Peter Staubach) [189435] {CVE-2006-1864}
-sctp: fix fixes for various vulnerabilities (Neil Horman) [191201 191202 191258] {CVE-2006-2271 CVE-2006-2272 CVE-2006-2274}
-fix local crash by dio/mmap sg/st driver (Doug Ledford) [168791]
-remove incorrect choose_new_parent BUG() call (Jason Baron) [187841]
-fix bridge poisoning (Thomas Graf) [171383] {CVE-2005-3272}
-netfilter/sctp: fix lockup in sctp_new (Thomas Graf) [190460] {CVE-2006-1527}
kernel-doc-2.6.9-34.EL.noarch [2.1 MiB] Changelog by Jason Baron (2006-02-24):
-Resolve ACPI SCI sharing and IRQ re-assignment (Peter Martuccelli) [182387]
kernel-doc-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL.noarch [2.0 MiB] Changelog by Jason Baron (2006-01-05):
-prevent panic caused by invalid arguments to set_mempolicy (Larry Woodman) [175683] {CVE-2005-3358}
-fix auto-reap DoS (Peter Staubach) [174078] {CVE-2005-3784}
-fix kernel memory disclosure via /proc exploit (Jason Baron) [176812] {CVE-2005-4605}
kernel-doc-2.6.9-22.0.1.EL.noarch [2.0 MiB] Changelog by Jason Baron (2005-10-18):
-orinoco: plug etherleak (John Linville) [170277] {CAN-2005-3180}
-fix sys_set_mempolicy() bounds check (Larry Woodman) [168993] {CAN-2005-3053}
-fix race in ebtables (James Morris) [170268] {CAN-2005-3110}
-fix memory leak in key management (David Howells) [170274] {CAN-2005-3119}
-fix names_cache memory leak (David Woodhouse) [170283] {CAN-2005-3181}
-fix ip_queue crash (James Morris) [167389]
-x86_64: iounmap fix [168217 160135 170264] {CAN-2005-3108}
-x86_64: add pageattr text mapping (Jim Paradis) [170154]
-fix NX text/large-page interaction [163238 168936]

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