[PATCH] econet: Move to staging; remove from defconfig

Recent review has revealed several bugs in econet and other obscure protocol implementations that can be exploited by local users for denial of service or privilege escalation. The econet protocol (PF_ECONET) is unmaintained. There appear to be no ...

Message posted on the November 27th, 2010 - 5:50 PM ET

[PATCH] econet: 4 byte infoleak to the network

struct aunhdr has 4 padding bytes between 'pad' and 'handle' fields on x86_64. These bytes are not initialized in the variable 'ah' before sending 'ah' to the network. This leads to 4 bytes kernel stack infoleak. This bug was introduced before ...

Message posted on the March 17th, 2011 - 6:50 AM ET

[PATCH 2/3] econet: Move to staging

Recent review has revealed several bugs in obscure protocol implementations that can be exploited by local users for denial of service or privilege escalation. The econet protocol (PF_ECONET) is unmaintained. There appear to be no published ...

Message posted on the November 22nd, 2010 - 11:00 PM ET

[PATCH] af_econet: Use current logging styles and neatening

Use pr_fmt() without KBUILD_MODNAME to allow AUN and econet prefixes. Convert printks with KERN_DEBUG to pr_debug. Hoist assigns from if. 80 column wrapping. Move open braces to end of line. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> ...

Message posted on the July 3rd, 2011 - 2:30 PM ET

[PATCH 00/24] net: Remove unnecessary OOM logging messages

Remove all the site-specific OOM messages because they duplicate the MM subsystem generic OOM message. Saves ~.2% (~2.5kb) of code/text in an x86 defconfig $ size net/built-in.o*defconfig text data bss dec hex filename 1506772 ...

Message posted on the August 29th, 2011 - 5:20 PM ET

[PATCH 00/12] net switch/case reformatting

Just whitespace cleanups with a couple trivial corrections Joe Perches (12): appletalk: Reduce switch/case indent decnet: Reduce switch/case indent econet: Reduce switch/case indent ipconfig: Reduce switch/case indent netfilter: Reduce switch/case ...

Message posted on the July 1st, 2011 - 3:50 PM ET

[PATCH] [0/223] 2.6.35.10 longterm review

This is the start of the longterm review cycle for the 2.6.35.10 release. There are a large number of patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let us know. If ...

Message posted on the December 12th, 2010 - 7:30 PM ET

[PATCH 3/3] x25: Move to staging

Recent review has revealed several bugs in obscure protocol implementations that can be exploited by local users for denial of service or privilege escalation. The x25 protocol (PF_X25) receives only 'odd fixes'. There appear to be no published ...

Message posted on the November 22nd, 2010 - 11:00 PM ET

[PATCH] [0/139] 2.6.35.11 longterm review

This is the start of the longterm review cycle for the 2.6.35.10 release. There are a large number of patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know. If ...

Message posted on the February 1st, 2011 - 8:20 PM ET

[PATCH] [0/139] 2.6.35.11 longterm review

This is the start of the longterm review cycle for the 2.6.35.10 release. There are a large number of patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know. If ...

Message posted on the February 1st, 2011 - 8:20 PM ET

[PATCH] net: bind() fix error return on wrong address family

Hi, Reinhard Max also pointed out that the error should EAFNOSUPPORT according to POSIX. The Linux manpages have it as EINVAL, some other OSes (Minix, HPUX, perhaps BSD) use EAFNOSUPPORT. Windows uses WSAEFAULT according to MSDN. Other protocols ...

Message posted on the July 4th, 2011 - 7:40 AM ET

Bug#624605: Potential fixes for lenny from stable 2.6.27.59

Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.26-26lenny2 Severity: normal We might as well get some benefit from these backports: 001/173 USB: EHCI: ASPM quirk of ISOC on AMD SB800 002/173 rt2x00: add device id for windy31 usb device 003/173 hwmon: (via686a) ...

Message posted on the April 30th, 2011 - 12:40 AM ET

[000/289] 2.6.36.2-stable review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.36.2 release. There are 289 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let us know. If anyone is a ...

Message posted on the December 7th, 2010 - 9:10 PM ET

[000/127] 2.6.32.27-stable review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.32.27 release. There are 127 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let us know. If anyone is a ...

Message posted on the December 7th, 2010 - 7:50 PM ET

patch econet