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

Website: http://www.kernel.org/
License: GPLv2
Vendor: Scientific Linux CERN, http://cern.ch/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-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5.noarch [3.0 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2010-03-01):
- [net] sctp: backport cleanups for ootb handling V2 (Neil Horman) [555666 555667] {CVE-2010-0008}
- Reverting: [net] sctp: backport cleanups for ootb handling (Neil Horman) [555666 555667] {CVE-2010-0008}
kernel-doc-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.noarch [3.0 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2010-01-06):
- [firewire] ohci: handle receive packets with zero data (Jay Fenlason) [547241 547242] {CVE-2009-4138}
- [x86] sanity check for AMD northbridges (Andrew Jones) [549905 547518]
- [x86_64] disable vsyscall in kvm guests (Glauber Costa) [550968 542612]
- [fs] ext3: replace lock_super with explicit resize lock (Eric Sandeen) [549908 525100]
- [fs] respect flag in do_coredump (Danny Feng) [544188 544189] {CVE-2009-4036}
- [gfs2] make O_APPEND behave as expected (Steven Whitehouse) [547521 544342]
- [fs] hfs: fix a potential buffer overflow (Amerigo Wang) [540740 540741] {CVE-2009-4020}
- [fuse] prevent fuse_put_request on invalid pointer (Danny Feng) [538736 538737] {CVE-2009-4021}
- [mm] call vfs_check_frozen after unlocking the spinlock (Amerigo Wang) [548370 541956]
- [infiniband] init neigh->dgid.raw on bonding events (Doug Ledford) [543448 538067]
- [scsi] gdth: prevent negative offsets in ioctl (Amerigo Wang) [539420 539421] {CVE-2009-3080}
- [fs] gfs2: fix glock ref count issues (Steven Whitehouse) [544978 539240]
- [net] call cond_resched in rt_run_flush (Amerigo Wang) [547530 517588]
- [scsi] megaraid: fix sas permissions in sysfs (Casey Dahlin) [537312 537313] {CVE-2009-3889 CVE-2009-3939}
- [ia64] kdump: restore registers in the stack on init (Takao Indoh ) [542582 515753]
- [x86] kvm: don't ask HV for tsc khz if not using kvmclock (Glauber Costa ) [537027 531268]
- [net] sched: fix panic in bnx2_poll_work (John Feeney ) [539686 526481]
- [x86_64] fix 32-bit process register leak (Amerigo Wang ) [526797 526798]
- [cpufreq] add option to avoid smi while calibrating (Matthew Garrett ) [537343 513649]
- [kvm] use upstream kvm_get_tsc_khz (Glauber Costa ) [540896 531025]
- [net] fix unbalance rtnl locking in rt_secret_reschedule (Neil Horman ) [549907 510067]
- [net] r8169: imporved rx length check errors (Neil Horman ) [552913 552438]
- [scsi] lpfc: fix FC ports offlined during target controller faults (Rob Evers ) [549906 516541]
- [net] emergency route cache flushing fixes (Thomas Graf ) [545662 545663] {CVE-2009-4272}
- [fs] fasync: split 'fasync_helper()' into separate add/remove functions (Danny Feng ) [548656 548657] {CVE-2009-4141}
- [scsi] qla2xxx: NPIV vport management pseudofiles are world writable (Tom Coughlan ) [537317 537318] {CVE-2009-3556}
kernel-doc-2.6.18-164.10.1.el5.noarch [3.0 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2009-12-30):
- [net] e1000, r9169: fix rx length check errors (Cong Wang ) [550914 550915]
- [net] e1000e: fix rx length check errors (Amerigo Wang ) [551222 551223]
- [net] ipv6: fix ipv6_hop_jumbo remote system crash (Amerigo Wang ) [548642 548643] {CVE-2007-4567}
kernel-doc-2.6.18-164.9.1.el5.noarch [3.0 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2009-12-09):
- [x86] fix stale data in shared_cpu_map cpumasks (Prarit Bhargava) [545583 541953]
kernel-doc-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.noarch [3.0 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2009-10-27):
- [fs] fix pipe null pointer dereference (Jeff Moyer) [530938 530939] {CVE-2009-3547}
- [security] require root for mmap_min_addr (Eric Paris ) [518142 518143] {CVE-2009-2695}
- [net] lvs: adjust sync protocol handling for ipvsadm -2 (Neil Horman ) [528645 524129]
- [xen] allow booting with broken serial hardware (Chris Lalancette ) [524153 518338]
kernel-doc-2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.noarch [3.0 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2009-09-21):
- [x86_64] kvm: bound last_kvm to prevent backwards time (Glauber Costa ) [524527 524076]
- [x86] kvm: fix vsyscall going backwards (Glauber Costa ) [524527 524076]
- [misc] fix RNG to not use first generated random block (Neil Horman ) [523289 522860]
- [x86] kvm: mark kvmclock_init as cpuinit (Glauber Costa ) [524151 523450]
- [x86_64] kvm: allow kvmclock to be overwritten (Glauber Costa ) [524150 523447]
- [x86] kvmclock: fix bogus wallclock value (Glauber Costa ) [524152 519771]
- [scsi] scsi_dh_rdace: add more sun hardware (mchristi@redhat.com ) [523237 518496]
- [misc] cprng: fix cont test to be fips compliant (Neil Horman ) [523290 523259]
- [net] bridge: fix LRO crash with tun (Andy Gospodarek ) [522636 483646]
- Revert: [x86_64] fix gettimeoday TSC overflow issue - 1 (Don Zickus ) [489847 467942]
- Revert: [net] atalk/irda: memory leak to user in getname (Danny Feng ) [519309 519310] {CVE-2009-3001 CVE-2009-3002}
kernel-doc-2.6.18-164.el5.noarch [3.0 MiB] Changelog by Don Zickus (2009-08-18):
- [misc] information leak in sigaltstack (Vitaly Mayatskikh ) [515396]
- [misc] execve: must clear current->clear_child_tid (Oleg Nesterov ) [515429]
- [net] igb: set lan id prior to configuring phy (Stefan Assmann ) [508870]
- [net] udp: socket NULL ptr dereference (Vitaly Mayatskikh ) [518043] {CVE-2009-2698}
kernel-doc-2.6.18-128.7.1.el5.noarch [2.9 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2009-08-19):
- [net] prevent null pointer dereference in udp_sendmsg (Vitaly Mayatskikh) [518047 518043] {CVE-2009-2698}
kernel-doc-2.6.18-128.4.1.el5.noarch [2.9 MiB] Changelog by Don Howard (2009-07-23):
- [fs] ecryptfs: check tag 11 packet literal data buffer size (Eric Sandeen ) [512862 512863] {CVE-2009-2406}
- [fs] ecryptfs: check tag 3 packet encrypted key size (Eric Sandeen ) [512886 512887] {CVE-2009-2407}
- [misc] personality handling: fix PER_CLEAR_ON_SETID (Vitaly Mayatskikh ) [511173 508842] {CVE-2009-1895}
- [xen] HV: remove high latency spin_lock (Chris Lalancette ) [512311 459410]
kernel-doc-2.6.18-128.1.14.el5.noarch [2.9 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2009-06-01):
- [nfs] v4: client handling of MAY_EXEC in nfs_permission (Peter Staubach ) [500301 500302] {CVE-2009-1630}
- [fs] proc: avoid info leaks to non-privileged processes (Amerigo Wang ) [499546 499541]
- [net] tg3: Fix firmware event timeouts (Jiri Pirko ) [502837 481715]
- [scsi] libiscsi: fix nop response/reply and session cleanup race (Jiri Pirko ) [502916 497411]
- [fs] cifs: fix pointer and checks in cifs_follow_symlink (Jeff Layton ) [496576 496577] {CVE-2009-1633}
- [fs] cifs: fix error handling in parse_DFS_referrals (Jeff Layton ) [496576 496577] {CVE-2009-1633}
- [fs] cifs: buffer overruns when converting strings (Jeff Layton ) [496576 496577] {CVE-2009-1633}
- [fs] cifs: unicode alignment and buffer sizing problems (Jeff Layton ) [494279 494280] {CVE-2009-1439}
- [x86] xen: fix local denial of service (Chris Lalancette ) [500950 500951] {CVE-2009-1758}
- [misc] compile: add -fwrapv to gcc CFLAGS (Don Zickus ) [501751 491266]
- [misc] random: make get_random_int more random (Amerigo Wang ) [499783 499776]
- [gfs2] fix uninterruptible quotad sleeping (Steven Whitehouse ) [501742 492943]
- [mm] cow vs gup race fix (Andrea Arcangeli ) [486921 471613]
- [mm] fork vs gup race fix (Andrea Arcangeli ) [486921 471613]
- [nfs] fix hangs during heavy write workloads (Peter Staubach ) [486926 469848]
kernel-doc-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.noarch [2.9 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2009-04-29):
- [fs] fix softlockup in posix_locks_deadlock (Josef Bacik ) [496842 476659]
kernel-doc-2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.noarch [2.9 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2009-03-24):
- [x86] add nonstop_tsc flag in /proc/cpuinfo (Luming Yu ) [489310 474091]
kernel-doc-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5.noarch [2.9 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2009-01-26):
- [security] introduce missing kfree (Jiri Pirko ) [480597 480598] {CVE-2009-0031}
- [sched] fix clock_gettime monotonicity (Peter Zijlstra ) [481122 477763]
- [nfs] create rpc clients with proper auth flavor (Jeff Layton ) [481119 465456]
- [net] sctp: overflow with bad stream ID in FWD-TSN chunk (Eugene Teo ) [478804 478805] {CVE-2009-0065}
- [md] fix oops with device-mapper mirror target (Heinz Mauelshagen ) [481120 472558]
- [openib] restore traffic in connected mode on HCA (AMEET M. PARANJAPE ) [479812 477000]
- [net] add preemption point in qdisc_run (Jiri Pirko ) [477746 471398] {CVE-2008-5713}
- [x86_64] copy_user_c assembler can leave garbage in rsi (Larry Woodman ) [481117 456682]
- [misc] setpgid returns ESRCH in some situations (Oleg Nesterov ) [480576 472433]
- [s390] zfcp: fix hexdump data in s390dbf traces (Hans-Joachim Picht ) [480996 470618]
- [fs] hfsplus: fix buffer overflow with a corrupted image (Anton Arapov ) [469637 469638] {CVE-2008-4933}
- [fs] hfsplus: check read_mapping_page return value (Anton Arapov ) [469644 469645] {CVE-2008-4934}
- [fs] hfs: fix namelength memory corruption (Anton Arapov ) [470772 470773] {CVE-2008-5025}
kernel-doc-2.6.18-128.el5.noarch [3.0 MiB] Changelog by Don Zickus (2008-12-17):
- [cifs] cifs_writepages may skip unwritten pages (Jeff Layton ) [470267]
kernel-doc-2.6.18-92.1.24.el5.noarch [2.8 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2009-01-08):
- [net] fix unix sockets kernel panic (Neil Horman ) [470435 470436] {CVE-2008-5029}
kernel-doc-2.6.18-92.1.17.el5.noarch [2.9 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2008-10-22):
- Revert: [nfs] pages of a memory mapped file get corrupted (Peter Staubach ) [450335 435291]
kernel-doc-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5.noarch [2.9 MiB] Changelog by Jiri Pirko (2008-09-04):
- [md] fix crashes in iterate_rdev (Doug Ledford ) [460128 455471]
- [sound] snd_seq_oss_synth_make_info info leak (Eugene Teo ) [458000 458001] {CVE-2008-3272}
- [ipmi] control BMC device ordering (peterm@redhat.com ) [459071 430157]
- [ia64] fix to check module_free parameter (Masami Hiramatsu ) [460639 457961]
-  [misc] NULL pointer dereference in kobject_get_path (Jiri Pirko ) [459776 455460]
- [xen] ia64: SMP-unsafe with XENMEM_add_to_physmap on HVM (Tetsu Yamamoto ) [459780 457137]
- [net] bridge: eliminate delay on carrier up (Herbert Xu ) [458783 453526]
- [fs] dio: lock refcount operations (Jeff Moyer ) [459082 455750]
- [misc]  serial: fix break handling for i82571 over LAN (Aristeu Rozanski ) [460509 440018]
- [fs] dio: use kzalloc to zero out struct dio (Jeff Moyer ) [461091 439918]
- [fs] lockd: nlmsvc_lookup_host called with f_sema held (Jeff Layton ) [459083 453094]
- [net] bnx2x: chip reset and port type fixes (Andy Gospodarek ) [441259 442026]

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