Andrea Arcangeli released 2.4.23pre6aa2 with several fixes. One bug he describes:

"Fixup overflow in p6 checksum routing that crashes sendfile, from Andi Kleen. IIRC I found and fixed (though fixed w/o fixmap) this same bug too in 1999, but at that time nobody listened about my claim that it would eventually crash machines due alignment issues."

The next -aa release is slated to include "libata for SATA" and a "UML update". Read on for the full changelog.

From: Andrea Arcangeli [email blocked]
To:  linux-kernel
Subject: 2.4.23pre6aa2
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 12:57:31 +0200

URL:

	http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.23pre6aa2.gz
	http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.23pre6aa2/

Pending things for next releases:

	o libata for SATA
	o UML update

Changelog diff between 2.4.23pre6aa1 and 2.4.23pre6aa2:

Only in 2.4.23pre6aa2: 00_csum-trail-1

	Fixup overflow in p6 checksum routing that crashes sendfile, from
	Andi Kleen. IIRC I found and fixed (though fixed w/o fixmap) this same
	bug too in 1999, but at that time nobody listened about my claim that
	it would eventually crash machines due alignment issues.

Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 00_extraversion-30
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa2: 00_extraversion-31

	Rediffed.

Only in 2.4.23pre6aa2: 70_qsort-1
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 71_qsort-1
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa2: 71_xfs-qsort-1

	Allow xfs to compile.

Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 91_zone_start_pfn-7
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa2: 91_zone_start_pfn-8

	Fix a NUMA bug introduced by this patch that was crashing my opteron
	desktop. From Andi Kleen.

Only in 2.4.23pre6aa1: 9999_zzz-dynamic-hz-1
Only in 2.4.23pre6aa2: 9999_zzz-dynamic-hz-2

	Fixup two miscompiles reported by Eyal Lebedinsky.

Andrea - If you prefer relying on open source software, check these links:
	    rsync.kernel.org::pub/scm/linux/kernel/bkcvs/linux-2.[45]/
	    http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/

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