I am trying to get 4-5 signed-off-by people on a small patch for a python script that lives in the scripts directory of the kernel source. If a handful of people from the python team or who others who really…
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Many years ago, the Gentoo kernel lead asked for help. 2 people responded. I was one of them. So I figured if I got 2-3 people and one stuck around, I would be in good shape. This time, I got…
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Once again, the Gentoo Source kernel team is looking for one or more people to help out with Gentoo-sources maintenance. Currently, I am the sole maintainer of our primary supported kernel and from the email complaints I have been receiving lately,…
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Seems the patch I committed for the fix was corrupted. So, I am rebuilding and releasing kernels for 3.2 , 3.1 and 3.0. Thanks for wired for pointing this out. I will be removing the ones from yesterday. The following…
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I just released gentoo-sources-3.2.1-r1 for Linux Local Privilege Escalation via SUID /proc/pid/mem . I plan on creating releases for additional kernels with this patch through the day. See the link for more info on the privilege escalation. The following kernel versions contain…
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Attention Gentoo RAID10 users running Linux kernel 3.1.0. There is a serious bug introduced in the 3.1.0 code. The Gentoo Kernel Team advises any of our RAID10 users running 3.1.0 (vanilla or gentoo-sources) to patch their kernel or immediately upgrade…
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Linux 3.0 is now released for Gentoo users in both vanilla and gentoo-source versions. These two ebuilds should be hitting the mirrors in the next few hours. Currently, deblob support is not available due to the kernel tarball being named…
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Just a quick note to announce gentoo-sources-2.6.38 has been released which includes the fbcondecor patch. Also note that the per-session group scheduling patch is included in this release from upstream. I also committed vanilla-sources-2.6.38, as well.
The Gentoo Kernel Team (thanks, asn!) have released 3 patched kernels that cover the Econet root exploit described at: http://lwn.net/Articles/419141/ This covers (CVE-2010-3850), (CVE-2010-3849) and (CVE-2010-4258). The following gentoo-sources contain the fixes: gentoo-sources-2.6.36-r4, gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r14 and gentoo-sources-2.6.32-r23. Edit: 2.6.36-r4, not r6,…
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If you haven’t heard about the new ~200 line patch which, for some users, has improved interactivity on the desktop, you can read about it here. I have released a masked version of gentoo-sources (gentoo-sources-2.6.36-r2) which contains the backport to…
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