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[066/117] ext4: correctly calculate number of blocks for fiemap
2.6.33-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Leonard Michlmayr <leonard.michlmayr(a)gmail.com> commit aca92ff6f57c000d1b4523e383c8bd6b8269b8b1 upstream. ext4_fiemap() rounds the length of the requested range down to blocksize, which is is not the tru... 10 May 2010 19:53

[057/117] ALSA: hda: Use STAC_DELL_M6_BOTH quirk for Dell Studio 1558
2.6.33-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Daniel T Chen <crimsun(a)ubuntu.com> commit 5c1bccf645d4ab65e4c7502acb42e8b9afdb5bdc upstream. BugLink: https://launchpad.net/bugs/568600 The OR has verified that the dell-m6 model quirk is necessary for... 10 May 2010 19:53

[03/98] md/raid5: allow for more than 2^31 chunks.
2.6.32-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: NeilBrown <neilb(a)suse.de> commit 35f2a591192d0a5d9f7fc696869c76f0b8e49c3d upstream. With many large drives and small chunk sizes it is possible to create a RAID5 with more than 2^31 chunks. Make sure th... 10 May 2010 19:53

[09/98] mac80211: remove bogus TX agg state assignment
2.6.32-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Johannes Berg <johannes(a)sipsolutions.net> commit b4bb5c3fd9333024044362df67e23e96158489ed upstream. When the addba timer expires but has no work to do, it should not affect the state machine. If it does,... 10 May 2010 19:53

[001/117] USB: EHCI: defer reclamation of siTDs
2.6.33-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Alan Stern <stern(a)rowland.harvard.edu> commit 0e5f231bc16ff9910882fa5b9d64d80e7691cfab upstream. This patch (as1369) fixes a problem in ehci-hcd. Some controllers occasionally run into trouble when the dr... 10 May 2010 19:53

bug: micrel phy init (2.6.34-rc7)
Loading the micrel phy driver BUGs (no device present): [ 623.821462] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) [ 623.822164] IP: [<ffffffff8123c9f0>] strcmp+0x6/0x44 [ 623.822164] PGD 7d4bd067 PUD 7d6bb067 PMD 0 [ 623.822164] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP Full kernel log and config are atta... 11 May 2010 02:27

[00/98] 2.6.32.13-stable review
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.32.13 release. There are 98 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 maintainer of the proper subsystem, and wants to add a Signed-off-by: lin... 10 May 2010 18:47

INFO: task umount:1524 blocked for more than 120 seconds
I have a reproduceable problem happening over here with unmount and ext4 if I sudo cp -R xserver(all libs/apps from git) to an external SmartDsk FireLite then after the cp is done sudo umount /dev/sdb1 I get this: type=1400 audit(1273526248.814:27): avc: denied { unmount } for pid=1524 comm="umount" sc... 16 May 2010 14:39

trivial: inode uses a mutex instead of a semaphore.
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote: Replace the introduced i_sem by an i_mutex in the filesystem locking documentation. This was introduced [1] after all occurrences were already replaced in the same text [2]. However, the term "inode semaphore" has not been replaced then, and it's r... 10 May 2010 18:47

swapper fixes (Was: kernel panic on kill(0, SIGTERM) with PGID == 0)
On 05/10, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 10 May 2010 21:49:17 +0200 Oleg Nesterov <oleg(a)redhat.com> wrote: Hello, Mathias Krause reports that a buggy (or special) /sbin/init can crash the kernel if it sends a signal to its pgrp/sid before it changes its initial (0,0) pids. See the cha... 10 May 2010 18:47