All users of the Linux 3.10 kernel series must upgrade

Jul 13, 2015 02:15 GMT  ·  By

The eighty-fourth maintenance release of the LTS (Long Term Supported) Linux kernel 3.10 has been announced by its maintainer, Greg Kroah-Hartman, and all users are urged to update as soon as possible.

According to the release announcement, Linux kernel 3.10.84 LTS is here to fix problems in several architectures, including ARM, PowerPC (PPC), x86, MIPS, and SPARC, to bring various networking improvements, as well as to update drivers and patch file systems issues.

In detail, we can notice that Linux kernel 3.10.84 fixes a race between route removal and OOTB response in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) transport-layer protocol, fixes Book3S PPC kernel to userspace backtraces, and it now uses host bridge _CRS info on Foxconn K8M890-8237A for x86/PCI architectures.

Moreover, num_members are now read only once in the packet_rcv_fanout() function, a memory leak has been patched in the talitos_alg_alloc() function, the "crypto: talitos - convert to use be16_add_cpu()" patch has been reverted, and fixmap address issues with KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) guests have been addressed for the MIPS architecture.

"I'm announcing the release of the 3.10.84 kernel. All users of the 3.10 kernel series must upgrade," says Greg Kroah-Hartman. "The updated 3.10.y git tree can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary."

All users of the Linux 3.10 kernel series are urged to update

Linux kernel 3.10.84 LTS is now capable of handling S_NOSEC in all supported file systems, forces execution of HCPTR access on virtual machine exit for KVM on the ARM architecture, addresses an endless loop for multicast router rlist, fixes race conditions in br_stp_set_bridge_priority, and makes vapics_in_nmi_mode atomic for x86 architectures.

Last but not least, GFP_ATOMIC is now used in the ldc_alloc_exp_dring() function because it can be called in the softirq context for SPARC architectures, and out-of-bounds reads are now avoided in round robin fanout. All users of the Linux 3.10 kernel series are urged to update as soon as possible. Download Linux kernel 3.10.84 LTS right now via Softpedia or from the kernel.org website.