Linux 2.4.29-rc3

Linux 2.4.29-rc3

[Marcelo Tosatti]

Hi, 

Here goes the third release candidate.

This one comes out to release a bunch of pending networking fixes from 
David Miller: netfilter, sctp, ipvs, etc.

Also changes the tty ldisc locking patches to not export a couple of API functions 
as GPL, because that breaks compatibility with older modutils.

This will become final if no problems appear.

Please help with testing!


Summary of changes from v2.4.29-rc2 to v2.4.29-rc3
============================================

<raivis:mt.lv>:
  o [NEIGH]: Calculate hash_val after possible table growth, not before

<scott:sonic.net>:
  o Fix net neighbour hash bug

David S. Miller:
  o [TG3]: Return 0 when PHY read times out, not all-ones
  o [TG3]: Fix signedness issues in PHY read/write loops
  o [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate
  o [INET_ECN]: Add INET_ECN_* enumeration from 2.6.x

Hideaki Yoshifuji:
  o [IPV6]: Fix tunnel list locking in sit.c

Jamal Hadi Salim:
  o [NET]: Add ETH_P_MPLS_* and ARPHRD_INFINIBAND defines from 2.6.x

Marcelo Tosatti:
  o Adrian/Arjan/Marcelo: change tty_wakeup/tty_ldisc_flush to non-GPL export for compat reasons and change requirement to modutils 2.4.10
  o Changed VERSION to 2.4.29-rc3

Olaf Kirch:
  o [NET]: Fix CMSG32_OK macros

Patrick McHardy:
  o [NETFILTER]: Associate locally generated ICMP errors with conntrack of original packet
  o [NETFILTER]: Remove CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_LOCAL config option
  o [NETFILTER]: Save a level of indentation in icmp_reply_translation
  o [NETFILTER]: Apply PRE_ROUTING manips in LOCAL_OUT for locally generated icmp errors
  o [NETFILTER]: Verify NAT manips have been applied before reversing them in icmp_reply_translation
  o [NETFILTER]: Release dst_entry in PRE_ROUTING after NAT
  o [NETFILTER]: Fix stack leakage in iptables/ip6_tables

Phil Oester:
  o [NETFILTER]: revert MASQUERADE optimization for mostly static IPs

Sridhar Samudrala:
  o [SCTP] Fix potential null pointer dereference in sctp_err_lookup()
  o [SCTP] Code cleanup: remove unused code and make needlessly global code static
  o [SCTP] Treat ICMP protocol unreachable errors from non-SCTP capable hosts as ABORTs.
  o [SCTP] Validate and respond to invalid chunk/parameter lengths
  o [SCTP] Implementation of SCTP Implementer's Guide Section 2.35
  o [SCTP] Clean up the T3_rtx timer when deleting a transport
  o [SCTP] Fix bug in setting ephemeral port in the bind address
  o [SCTP] Fix misc. issues in SCTP_PEER_ADDR_PARAMS set socket option
  o [SCTP] Remove sk_xxx macros to be consistent with the rest of networking code and to avoid backporting issues.
  o [SCTP] Fix sctp_getladdrs() to return valid local addresses on an endpoint that is bound to INADDR_ANY or inaddr6_any.

Thomas Graf:
  o [PKT_SCHED]: dsmark should ignore ECN bits

Wensong Zhang:
  o [IPVS]: change to run master/backup sync daemon at a time

Yasuyuki Kozakai:
  o [NETFILTER]: Backport fixes for ip6t_LOG
  o [NETFILTER]: Backport fixes for ip6t_dst
  o [NETFILTER]: Fix check for ESP header size in ip6t_esp
  o [NETFILTER]: Backport fixes for ip6t_eui64
  o [NETFILTER]: Backport fixes for ip6t_frag
  o [NETFILTER]: Backport fixes for ip6t_hbh
  o [NETFILTER]: Backport fixes for ip6t_ipv6header
  o [NETFILTER]: Backport fixes for ip6t_multiport
  o [NETFILTER]: Backport fixes for ip6t_rt
  o [NETFILTER]: Backport fixes for ip6tables

Re: Linux 2.4.29-rc3

[Willy TARREAU]

Hi Marcelo,

On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 01:13:20PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> Here goes the third release candidate.
> 
> This one comes out to release a bunch of pending networking fixes from 
> David Miller: netfilter, sctp, ipvs, etc.
> 
> Also changes the tty ldisc locking patches to not export a couple of API functions 
> as GPL, because that breaks compatibility with older modutils.
> 
> This will become final if no problems appear.
> 
> Please help with testing!

OK, it builds and runs on my dual athlon (gcc-2.95.3,e1000,scsi), my
notebook (gcc-3.3.5,tg3,acpi), and on an ultra60 (ultrasparc SMP,gcc-3.3.4,
scsi,sunhme). I also built it on an alpha ev6 with gcc-3.3.5, but I didn't
want to reboot it.

While compiling, I noticed that hosts using gcc-3 gave a few warnings such
as this one, which is easily fixed with the following patch :

  bond_alb.c: In function `bond_alb_xmit':
  bond_alb.c:1278: warning: use of cast expressions as lvalues is deprecated


--- ./drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c.bad	Sat Mar 20 10:08:18 2004
+++ ./drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c	Sat Jan 15 22:14:32 2005
@@ -1275,7 +1275,7 @@
 int bond_alb_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *bond_dev)
 {
 	struct bonding *bond = bond_dev->priv;
-	struct ethhdr *eth_data = (struct ethhdr *)skb->mac.raw = skb->data;
+	struct ethhdr *eth_data = (struct ethhdr *)(skb->mac.raw = skb->data);
 	struct alb_bond_info *bond_info = &(BOND_ALB_INFO(bond));
 	struct slave *tx_slave = NULL;
 	static u32 ip_bcast = 0xffffffff;


> Summary of changes from v2.4.29-rc2 to v2.4.29-rc3
> ============================================
(...) 
> Patrick McHardy:
>   o [NETFILTER]: Associate locally generated ICMP errors with conntrack of original packet
>   o [NETFILTER]: Remove CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_LOCAL config option

at first, I though that both the config option and the feature were removed !
fortunately, it's only the option ;-)

Cheers,
Willy