Kernel

[15/25] USB: fix testing the wrong variable in fs_create_by_name()
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Dan Carpenter <error27(a)gmail.com> commit fa7fe7af146a7b613e36a311eefbbfb5555325d1 upstream. There is a typo here. We should be testing "*dentry" which was just assigned instead of "dentry". This could ... 25 May 2010 14:38

[21/25] svc: Clean up deferred requests on transport destruction
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Tom Tucker <tom(a)opengridcomputing.com> commit 22945e4a1c7454c97f5d8aee1ef526c83fef3223 upstream. A race between svc_revisit and svc_delete_xprt can result in deferred requests holding references on a trans... 25 May 2010 14:38

[11/25] [SCSI] megaraid_sas: fix for 32bit apps
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Tomas Henzl <thenzl(a)redhat.com> commit b3dc1a212e5167984616445990c76056034f8eeb upstream. It looks like this patch - commit 7b2519afa1abd1b9f63aa1e90879307842422dae Author: Yang, Bo <Bo.Yang(a)lsi.com> ... 25 May 2010 14:38

[25/25] nfsd: fix vm overcommit crash
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com> commit 731572d39fcd3498702eda4600db4c43d51e0b26 upstream. Junjiro R. Okajima reported a problem where knfsd crashes if you are using it to export shmemfs objects and run strict ... 25 May 2010 14:38

[01/25] ALSA: mixart: range checking proc file
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Dan Carpenter <error27(a)gmail.com> commit b0cc58a25d04160d39a80e436847eaa2fbc5aa09 upstream. The original code doesn't take into consideration that the value of MIXART_BA0_SIZE - pos can be less than zero... 25 May 2010 14:38

[20/25] libata: retry FS IOs even if it has failed with AC_ERR_INVALID
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Tejun Heo <tj(a)kernel.org> commit 534ead709235b967b659947c55d9130873a432c4 upstream. libata currently doesn't retry if a command fails with AC_ERR_INVALID assuming that retrying won't get it any further eve... 25 May 2010 14:38

[18/25] i2c: Fix probing of FSC hardware monitoring chips
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Jean Delvare <khali(a)linux-fr.org> commit b1d4b390ea4bb480e65974ce522a04022608a8df upstream. Some FSC hardware monitoring chips (Syleus at least) doesn't like quick writes we typically use to probe for I2C ... 25 May 2010 14:38

[22/25] hwmon: (w83781d) Request I/O ports individually for probing
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Jean Delvare <khali(a)linux-fr.org> commit b0bcdd3cd0adb85a7686b396ba50493871b1135c upstream. Different motherboards have different PNP declarations for W83781D/W83782D chips. Some declare the whole range of... 25 May 2010 14:38

[05/25] ext4: Add percpu dirty block accounting.
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com> commit 6bc6e63fcd7dac9e633ea29f1fddd9580ab28f3f upstream. This patch adds dirty block accounting using percpu_counters. Delayed allocation block rese... 25 May 2010 14:38

[24/25] i2c-tiny-usb: Fix on big-endian systems
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Jean Delvare <khali(a)linux-fr.org> commit 1c010ff8912cbc08d80e865aab9c32b6b00c527d upstream. The functionality bit vector is always returned as a little-endian 32-bit number by the device, so it must be byt... 25 May 2010 14:38