[Regression] linux: 2.6.32-34.73 -proposed tracker

[Herton R. Krzesinski]

This bug is for tracking the 2.6.32-34.73 upload package. This bug will contain status and testing results related to that upload.

For an explanation of the tasks and the associated workflow see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/kernel-sru-workflow

kernel-stable-phase:Preparation
kernel-stable-phase-changed:Wednesday, 10. August 2011 19:44 UTC
kernel-stable-copy-to-proposed-end:Tuesday, 16. August 2011 12:39 UTC

[Herton R. Krzesinski (herton)]

All builds are complete, packages in this bug can be copied to -proposed.

Derivative packages from packages here can be worked on, the following tracking bugs were opened for them:
linux-fsl-imx51 - bug 824987
linux-mvl-dove - bug 824988
linux-ec2 - bug 824989

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Copied the whole lot to -proposed

[Herton R. Krzesinski (herton)]

A regression was found in one of the cve fixes (bug 813026, comment #2):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/813026/comments/2

[Herton R. Krzesinski (herton)]

A new release is being made to address the regression found (bug 828375). Setting this one as duplicate.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 2.6.32-34.77

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linux (2.6.32-34.77) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  [Steve Conklin]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #849228

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * Revert "drm/i915: Remove BUG_ON from i915_gem_evict_something"
  * Revert "drm/i915: Periodically flush the active lists and requests"
  * Revert "drm/i915/evict: Ensure we completely cleanup on failure"
  * Revert "drm/i915: Maintain LRU order of inactive objects upon access by
    CPU (v2)"
  * Revert "drm/i915: Implement fair lru eviction across both rings. (v2)"
  * Revert "drm/i915: Move the eviction logic to its own file."
  * Revert "drm/i915: prepare for fair lru eviction"

linux (2.6.32-34.76) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  [Steve Conklin]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #836914

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * Revert "drm/nv50-nvc0: work around an evo channel hang that some people
    see"
  * Revert "eCryptfs: Handle failed metadata read in lookup"
  * Revert "tunnels: fix netns vs proto registration ordering"

linux (2.6.32-34.75) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  [Herton R. Krzesinski]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #832332

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * drm/i915: Remove BUG_ON from i915_gem_evict_something
    - LP: #828550

linux (2.6.32-34.74) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  [Herton R. Krzesinski]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #828375

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * proc: fix oops on invalid /proc/<pid>/maps access, CVE-2011-1020
    - LP: #813026
    - CVE-2011-1020

linux (2.6.32-34.73) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  [Herton R. Krzesinski]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #824148

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * SAUCE: rtl8192se: Force a build for a 2.6/3.0 kernel
    - LP: #805494
  * [Config] Add enic/fnic to udebs
    - LP: #801610

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * tty: icount changeover for other main devices, CVE-2010-4076,
    CVE-2010-4077
    - LP: #720189
    - CVE-2010-4077
  * fs/partitions/efi.c: corrupted GUID partition tables can cause kernel
    oops
    - LP: #795418
    - CVE-2011-1577
  * ftrace: Only update the function code on write to filter files
    - LP: #802383
  * kmemleak: Do not return a pointer to an object that kmemleak did not
    get
    - LP: #802383
  * CPU hotplug, re-create sysfs directory and symlinks
    - LP: #802383
  * Fix memory leak in cpufreq_stat
    - LP: #802383
  * powerpc/kexec: Fix memory corruption from unallocated slaves
    - LP: #802383
  * powerpc/oprofile: Handle events that raise an exception without
    overflowing
    - LP: #802383
  * mtd: mtdconcat: fix NAND OOB write
    - LP: #802383
  * x86, 64-bit: Fix copy_[to/from]_user() checks for the userspace address
    limit
    - LP: #802383
  * ext3: Fix fs corruption when make_indexed_dir() fails
    - LP: #802383
  * jbd: Fix forever sleeping process in do_get_write_access()
    - LP: #802383
  * jbd: fix fsync() tid wraparound bug
    - LP: #802383
  * ext4: release page cache in ext4_mb_load_buddy error path
    - LP: #802383
  * Fix Ultrastor asm snippet
    - LP: #802383
  * x86, amd: Do not enable ARAT feature on AMD processors below family
    0x12
    - LP: #802383
  * x86, ...