Linux 2.6.16.56-rc1

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Date: Saturday, October 20, 2007 - 5:44 pm

Security fixes since 2.6.16.55:
- CVE-2007-3739: Don't allow the stack to grow into hugetlb reserved regions
- CVE-2007-4133: hugetlb: fix prio_tree unit

Location:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/bunk/linux-2.6.16.y/testing/

git tree:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git

RSS feed of the git tree:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git;...

Changes since 2.6.16.55:

Adam Litke (1):
Don't allow the stack to grow into hugetlb reserved regions (CVE-2007-3739)

Adrian Bunk (2):
drivers/video/macmodes.c:mac_find_mode() mustn't be __init
Linux 2.6.16.56-rc1

Andreas Arens (1):
DVB: get_dvb_firmware: update script for new location of tda10046 firmware

Arthur Othieno (1):
hugetlbfs: add Kconfig help text

David S. Miller (2):
[NET]: Zero length write() on socket should not simply return 0.
[SPARC64]: Fix bugs in SYSV IPC handling in 64-bit processes.

Hugh Dickins (1):
hugetlb: fix prio_tree unit (CVE-2007-4133)

Ilpo Järvinen (2):
[PKT_SCHED] RED: Fix overflow in calculation of queue average
[TCP]: Fix fastpath_cnt_hint when GSO skb is partially ACKed

Jan Altenberg (1):
m68knommu: ptrace.h typo fix

Ken Chen (1):
x86: HUGETLBFS and DEBUG_PAGEALLOC are incompatible

Kumar Gala (1):
[POWERPC] Fix handling of stfiwx math emulation

Michael Krufky (1):
DVB: get_dvb_firmware: update script for new location of sp8870 firmware

Mike Frysinger (1):
alpha: fix epoll syscall enumerations

Randy Dunlap (1):
hugetlbfs doc. update

Stephen Hemminger (1):
[PKT_SCHED] cls_u32: error code isn't been propogated properly

Stephen Smalley (1):
SELinux: clear parent death signal on SID transitions

Ulrich Drepper (1):
make UML compile (FC6/x86-64)

Zhang Yanmin (1):
[IA64] lazy_mmu_prot_update needs to be aware of huge pages

Documentation/dvb/get_dvb_firmware ...

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