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Kernel 2.6.1 Released

Posted by michael on from the stable-goodness dept.

jnf writes "And so he said it is released, and then jumped on a plane to Australia. Linus announced the release of 2.6.1 a few minutes ago, fixes include AGPGART, a fork() bugfix, and misc changes to XFS, and those are just the patches applied since v2.6.1-rc3. Full changelog is avialable, kernel at the usual places, i held off posting this until kernel.org was updated." 2.6.0 is now in Debian unstable...

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  1. do_mremap local exploit by zeroclip · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does this release fix the do_mremap() exploit? I coulden't find it in the changelog. I got the impression from security sites that 2.6.0 had this bug.

    1. Re:do_mremap local exploit by PowerBert · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Yes, it was fixed in 2.6.1-rc1....
      and then again in 2.6.1-rc2.
      Real men don't test patches... aparently ;-)

  2. Re:My Patch by Neon+Spiral+Injector · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well I've been poking around in the kernel for years now. Mostly just trying things other people have told me to do to fix what ever problem I was having. Then I'd say, "yeah, that fixed it", and the author of said code would submit the patch.

    This time, I attempted to do the same. But the author didn't tell me much of what to do at all. So I just started looking at the one function he pointed me to. I ended up surprising myself. I found I could easily follow what was going on, and quickly found my problem. I tried a fix, and it worked. I reported back to the author, that I fixed my problem and how, and he asked me to submit a patch to Linus.

    I've used to think of the kernel as some beast, full of black magic. Some of the parts dealing with broken hardware, are a little arcane. But the more I look at it, the more I see that most of it is just C. Now that Linus is subscribed to the linux-kernel mailing list, I see more developers interacting with him. He really does have good taste in code.

  3. Re:My Patch by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You sir are what Linux is all about :)

    Thank you for fixing our code and making it a little more stable for us all. Hopefully your comments will spur others to have a peek under the hood and see what they can discover.

    --
    liqbase :: faster than paper