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[IPV6]: Route events reported with wrong netlink PID and seq number

Attached is backport of patch from jamal already in the 2.6 kernel -
It would be very nice to see it in the 2.4 kernel as well, as I keep
receiving reports from users that "Quagga IPv6 is broken with 2.4 kernel".

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Revert unnecessary arch/ppc64/boot/zlib.c

It turns out that empty distance code tables are not an error, and that
a compressed block with only literals can validly have an empty table
and should not be flagged as a data error.

Some old versions of gzip had problems with this case, but it does not
affect the zlib code in the kernel.

Analysis and explanations thanks to Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>

Revert unnecessary zlib_inflate/inftress.c fix

It turns out that empty distance code tables are not an error, and that
a compressed block with only literals can validly have an empty table
and should not be flagged as a data error.

Some old versions of gzip had problems with this case, but it does not
affect the zlib code in the kernel.

Analysis and explanations thanks to Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>

[PATCH] Remove isofs useless unsigned " < 0" comparison

This patch fix gcc-3.4 warnings by remove useless "if (ivalue < 0)"
comparison.

[PATCH] update lm_sensors mailing list address

The lm_sensors project changed mailing lists.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>

[PATCH] isofs driver ignore parameters

It seems that Alexander Pytlev's original (simple) patch was correct.

Without it the logic looks a bit like this.

while (...) {
if iocharset
...
else if map
...
if session
...
if sbsector
...
else if check
...
...
else
return 1;
}

Now, if iocharset, map or session are matched, then none of the if or
else if clauses under sbsector will match (that is none of these clauses
match iocharset, map or session), and thus the else clause will be hit,
and the function will return 1 without parsing any furhter options.

With Alexander's fix, the if session and if sbsector clauses
become else if, and its easy to see that the return 1 won't
be premeturely called.

I have tested that this patch works using the testcase options
iocharset=koi8-r,gid=100, and checking that gid is set correctly
with the patch, and incorrectly without.

Here is the patch and signoff again, just for the record.
I will send a second patch to clean up the *value = 0 code
that Marcelo cast concerns over - its bogus but harmless.

Signed-off-by: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>

Change VERSION to v2.4.32-pre3

[PATCH] fix potential NULL dereferences in several serial driver methods (Julien Tinnes)

These patches from Julien Tinnes fix *potential* NULL dereferences in several
serial drivers. Although their known callers can't pass NULL, we cannot tell
about unknown callers (non-mainline patches), so it's safer to check.

Change VERSION to v2.4.32-pre2

[PATCH] PATCH: Fix outstanding gzip/zlib security issues

commit 243393c90f2b7cb781fd794e22786e9c8547901a
Add fakey 'deflateBound()' function to the in-kernel zlib routines

It's not the real deflateBound() in newer zlib libraries, partly because
the upcoming usage of it won't have the "stream" available, so we can't
have the same interfaces anyway.

commit fab5a60a29f98f17256a4183e34a414f6db67569
This uses the new deflateBound() thing to sanity-check the input to the
zlib decompressor before we even bother to start reading in the blocks.

Problem noted by Tim Yamin <plasmaroo@gentoo.org>
author Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>

[PATCH] fix oops when starting md multipath 2.4 kernel

The device major/minor numbers no longer match up values recorded in the
descriptor array in the md superblock. Because of the exception made in
the current code, the descriptor entries are removed and although the
real devices are present and accounted for, they are kicked out from
the array. This leaves the array with zero devices. When multipath_run()
is invoked, it blows up expecting to have had some disks.

Lars Marowsky-Bree suggested some patches for md multipath in 2002 but
never made it to mainline 2.4 kernel:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=3Dlinux-kernel&m=3D103355467608953&w=3D=2
That patch is large and most of it is not requried for this particular
problem. The section that reinitializes the descriptor array from
current rdevs for the case of multipath will resolve this issue of
device names shift.

[PATCH] Fix Alpha AXP Cabriolet build

This humble acolyte runs a couple of ancient Alpha AXP 21064 boxes (using
Debian Sarge), and recently when upgrading the kernel from 2.4.18 to
2.4.31 (compiling vanilla sources off of www.kernel.org) I found that the
build would fail when linking the kernel binary. The error was an
unresolved reference to:

ns87312_enable_ide()

The Alpha variant used was "Cabriolet." The Cabriolet's are rather old,
circa 1995 or '96, motherboards based around the 21064, so I doubt that
there are many of them still running, but I like mine just the same ;-)

Anyhow, a simple one line fix to the arch/alpha/kernel/Makefile solves
this problem (patch file is attached). I've also attached the config file
I used for the build, as well as the boot messages from the kernel built
after the patch was applied.

[PATCH] fix RedBlackTree rb_next/rb_prev functions

I have found a bug in the source of rbtree.c file in /lib. In Kernel 2.6 it's
ok, but 2.4.31 has this error.

We try to use it with the jffs2 source code and only with this fix it work's
fine.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>

[PATCH] Revert USB UHCI changes

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:

> Am I missing something here? We're certainly adding TDs to the schedule, so
> why is this patch setting the QH bit?

This is pretty embarrassing. I didn't realize that the 2.4 driver uses
TDs to mark interrupt queues. (2.6 uses QHs, which makes more sense.)
Of course, if I had done better testing the problem would have shown up
right away.

So please accept my apology, the UHCI part of that patch was completely
wrong. Below is another patch to revert it. The lesson is clear -- from
now on I'll leave the 2.4 driver alone!

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>

[PATCH] Fix XTEA implementation

The XTEA implementation was incorrect due to a misinterpretation of
operator precedence. Because of the wide-spread nature of this
error, the erroneous implementation will be kept, albeit under the
new name of XETA.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Grothe <ajgrothe@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

[PATCH] Remove bogus declaration of ipt_mutex

Fix compiler error (gcc-4.0) for bogus declaration of ipt_mutex

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>

diff -Nru linux-2.4.31/include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ip_tables.h linux-2.4.32-pre2/include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ip_tables.h

[PATCH] Fix incorrect Asus k7m irq router detection

Here is 2.4 version of a patch submitted earlier for 2.6 by Giancarlo
Formicuccia.

this patch:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bk-commits-head&m=111955644929114&w=2
uncovered a k7m bios bug, where the VT82C686A router is reported as
being "586-compatible". The two chips have different pirq mapping, so
this leads to "irq routing conflict" on many pci devices.

Patch for 2.4.32-pre2

Signed-off-by: Aleksey Gorelov <aleksey_gorelov@phoenix.com>

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/pci-irq.c b/arch/i386/kernel/pci-irq.c

[PATCH] ppc32: stop misusing ntps time_offset value

v2.4 backport

Signed-off-by: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>

From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 05:08:54 +0000 (+1000)
Subject: [PATCH] ppc32: stop misusing ntps time_offset value
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.12.3
X-Git-Url: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/gregkh/linux-2.6.12.y.git;a=commitdiff;h=8f399a7448e0b58eae969426f61b7e81d55d2639

[PATCH] ppc32: stop misusing ntps time_offset value

As part of my timeofday rework, I've been looking at the NTP code and I
noticed that the PPC architecture is apparently misusing the NTP's
time_offset (it is a terrible name!) value as some form of timezone offset.

This could cause problems when time_offset changed by the NTP code. This
patch changes the PPC code so it uses a more clear local variable:
timezone_offset.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

[PATCH] i810_audio: use MMIO on systems that support it

Use MMIO accesses for devices that support it. This also enables
MMIO-only configurations.

Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

[PATCH] i810_audio: offset LVI from CIV to avoid stalled start

Offset LVI past CIV when starting DAC/ADC in order to prevent
stalled start.

Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Acked-by: Thomas Voegtle <tv@lio96.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

[PATCH] megaraid2 v2.10.10.1

This patch contains accumulated changes over the time.

Description of the changes.
### Version 2.10.10.1
Thu Jan 27 15:59:59 EDT 2005 - Seokmann Ju <sju@lsil.com>
1. There was a bug in the 'megadev_ioctl()' function that cause random
deletion error and has been fixed.

### Version 2.10.10.0
Fri Jan 21 15:59:59 EDT 2005 - Seokmann Ju <sju@lsil.com>
1. Fixed Tape drive issue : For any Direct CDB command to physical
device including tape, timeout value set by driver was 10 minutes. With
this value, most of command will return within timeout. However, for
those command like ERASE or FORMAT, it takes more than an hour depends
on capacity of the device and the command could be terminated before
it completes. To address this issue, the 'timeout' field in the DCDB
command will have NO TIMEOUT (i.e., 4) value as its timeout on DCDB
command.

2. Added NEC ROMB support : NEC MegaRAID PCI Express ROMB
controller

### Version 2.10.9.0
Fri Aug 13 15:59:59 EDT 2004 - Rajesh Prabhakaran <rajeshpr@lsil.com>
1. Added Support for 64-applications : mega_ioctl function and
nitioctl_t struct where changed to accomadate 64-bit addressing.

Signed-off-by: Seokmann Ju <seokmann.ju@lsil.com>

diff -Naur old/drivers/scsi/megaraid2.c new/drivers/scsi/megaraid2.c

Merge rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.4

[NETFILTER]: Use correct byteorder in ICMP NAT

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

[NETFILTER]: Fix potential memory corruption in NAT code (aka memory NAT)

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

[NETFILTER]: Fix ip6t_LOG sit tunnel logging

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

[NETFILTER]: Restore netfilter assumption in IPv6 multicast

Netfilter assumes that skb->data == skb->nh.ipv6h

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

[NETFILTER]: Fix deadlock with ip_queue/ip6_queue

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

[NETFILTER]: Ignore PSH on SYN/ACK in ipt_unclean

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Merge with rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.4.git

[IPVS]: Close race conditions on ip_vs_conn_tab list modification

In an smp system, it is possible for an connection timer to expire, calling
ip_vs_conn_expire while the connection table is being flushed, before
ct_write_lock_bh is acquired.

Since the list iterator loop in ip_vs_con_flush releases and re-acquires the
spinlock (even though it doesn't re-enable softirqs), it is possible for the
expiration function to modify the connection list, while it is being traversed
in ip_vs_conn_flush.

The result is that the next pointer gets set to NULL, and subsequently
dereferenced, resulting in an oops.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: JulianAnastasov
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>