Lucid sfc stable updates from 2.6.33.4

[Tim Gardner]

SRU justification:

Impact: The sfc driver was backported from 2.6.33, and as such requires that stable updates from 2.6.33.y be applied. We pick upstream stable patches from 2.6.32.y for the main kernel as part of the kernel SRU policy. But as this specific driver is a backport, updates need to come from a different tree.

Fix: There are currently 3 patches available from 2.6.33.4 stable:

680e3fe449b3a78a95871bbc02398b2bb1a40174 sfc: Change falcon_probe_board() to fail for unsupported boards
068e5818f0d028cc0469ae7ae33368fd71024886 sfc: Always close net device at the end of a disabling reset
fa8472cab002dbbb70bf2b1c975b56f75e5d88c6 sfc: Wait at most 10ms for the MC to finish reading out MAC statistics

Testcase: TBD

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi Tim,

Please be sure to confirm this issue exists with the latest development release of Ubuntu. ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ . If the issue remains, please run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 590783

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[Steve Conklin (sconklin)]

These came from upstream as a recommended update for stable, and have been acked by the kernel team, so we'll take them

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Accepted linux into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 2.6.32-24.38

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linux (2.6.32-24.38) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Keng-Yu Lin ]

  * SAUCE: dell-laptop: fire SMI when toggling hardware killswitch
    (revised)
    - LP: #590607

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * sfc: Wait at most 10ms for the MC to finish reading out MAC statistics
    - LP: #590783
  * sfc: Always close net device at the end of a disabling reset
    - LP: #590783
  * sfc: Change falcon_probe_board() to fail for unsupported boards
    - LP: #590783
  * ext4: Fix potential quota deadlock
    - LP: #588069
  * jbd: jbd-debug and jbd2-debug should be writable
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: replace BUG() with return -EIO in ext4_ext_get_blocks
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4, jbd2: Add barriers for file systems with exernal journals
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: Eliminate potential double free on error path
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: return correct wbc.nr_to_write in ext4_da_writepages
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: Ensure zeroout blocks have no dirty metadata
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: Patch up how we claim metadata blocks for quota purposes
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: Fix accounting of reserved metadata blocks
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: Calculate metadata requirements more accurately
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: Handle -EDQUOT error on write
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: Fix quota accounting error with fallocate
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: Drop EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_UPDATE_RESERVE_SPACE flag
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: Use bitops to read/modify EXT4_I(inode)->i_state
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: Fix BUG_ON at fs/buffer.c:652 in no journal mode
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: Add flag to files with blocks intentionally past EOF
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: Fix fencepost error in chosing choosing group vs file
    preallocation.
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: fix error handling in migrate
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: explicitly remove inode from orphan list after failed direct io
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: Handle non empty on-disk orphan link
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: make "offset" consistent in ext4_check_dir_entry()
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: Fix insertion point of extent in mext_insert_across_blocks()
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: Fix the NULL reference in double_down_write_data_sem()
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: Code cleanup for EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT ioctl
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: Fix estimate of # of blocks needed to write indirect-mapped files
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: Fixed inode allocator to correctly track a flex_bg's used_dirs
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: Fix possible lost inode write in no journal mode
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: Fix buffer head leaks after calls to ext4_get_inode_loc()
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: Issue the discard operation *before* releasing the blocks to be
    reused
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: check missed return value in ext4_sync_file()
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: fix memory leaks in error path handling of ext4_ext_zeroout()
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: Remove unnecessary call to ext4_get_group_desc() in mballoc
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: rename ext4_mb_release_desc() to ext4_mb_unload_buddy()
    - LP: #588069
  * ext4: allow defrag (EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT) in 32b...