14 DAY TRIAL // The Linux kernel version 2.6.19.2 was released two days ago and it includes a lot of patches. Most important fix in this release is the removal of an error present since kernel 2.6.19, which on very rare occasions prevents data from being written onto a storage medium correctly, like BitTorrent clients. The stable-kernel team headed by Linus Torvalds hunted this error for about one month and finally, Linus himself wrote a patch.
Security fixes in this release:
￭ Bluetooth: Add packet size checks for CAPI messages ￭ handle ext3 directory corruption better ￭ corrupted cramfs filesystems cause kernel oops ￭ ext2: skip pages past number of blocks in ext2_find_entry ￭ VM: Fix nasty and subtle race in shared mmap'ed page writeback ￭ Fix incorrect user space access locking in mincore()
Changes from 2.6.19.1 to 2.6.19.2
￭ bonding: incorrect bonding state reported via ioctl ￭ dvb-core: fix bug in CRC-32 checking on 64-bit systems ￭ x86-64: Mark rdtsc as sync only for netburst, not for core2 ￭ Fix for shmem_truncate_range() BUG_ON() ￭ ebtables: don't compute gap before checking struct type ￭ asix: Fix typo for AX88772 PHY Selection ￭ IPV4/IPV6: Fix inet{,6} device initialization order. ￭ UDP: Fix reversed logic in udp_get_port() ￭ NET: Don't export linux/random.h outside __KERNEL__ ￭ ramfs breaks without CONFIG_BLOCK ￭ i2c: fix broken ds1337 initialization ￭ handle ext3 directory corruption better ￭ ext2: skip pages past number of blocks in ext2_find_entry ￭ Fix up page_mkclean_one(): virtual caches, s390 ￭ SCSI: add missing cdb clearing in scsi_execute()
To see the full changelog, please click here.
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Linux is a clone of the operating system Unix, initially written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance.
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