Download Linux Kernel 2.6.11.9

Kernel.org has released version 2.6.11.9 of the Linux Kernel. The developers take it easy and therefore the changelog is not very long as is sometimes the case. A minor bug is being fixed here and there as you can see in the changelog below:

Summary of changes from 2.6.11.8 to 2.6.11.9

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Revert the msdos.c patch as it causes more problems than it helps right now. (it got munged together with the i2c patch also, stupid scripts…)

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

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[PATCH] I2C: Fix incorrect sysfs file permissions in it87 and via686a drivers

The it87 and via686a hardware monitoring drivers each create a sysfs file named “alarms” in R/W mode, while they should really create it in read-only mode. Since we don’t provide a store function for these files, write attempts to these files will do something undefined (I guess) and bad (I am sure). My own try resulted in a locked terminal (where I attempted the write) and a 100% CPU load until next reboot.

As a side note, wouldn’t it make sense to check, when creating sysfs files, that readable files have a non-NULL show method, and writable files have a non-NULL store method? I know drivers are not supposed to do stupid things, but there is already a BUG_ON for several conditions in sysfs_create_file, so maybe we could add two more?

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

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[PATCH] Security contact info

Add security contact info and relevant documentation.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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[PATCH] Remove bogus BUG() in kernel/exit.c

Remove bogus BUG() in kernel/exit.c

It’s old sanity checking that may have been useful for debugging, but is just bogus these days.

Noticed by Mattia Belletti.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

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[PATCH] fix Linux kernel ELF core dump privilege elevation

As reported by Paul Starzetz

Reference: CAN-2005-1263

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

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