From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760868AbYEGDjs (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 23:39:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756608AbYEGDjb (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 23:39:31 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:50393 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753671AbYEGDja (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2008 23:39:30 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 20:36:07 -0700 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable@kernel.org Subject: Linux 2.6.25.2 Message-ID: <20080507033607.GA10503@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.25.2 kernel. It fixes one pretty nasty security bug. All users of the 2.6.25 series are strongly encouraged to upgrade. Many thanks to Al Viro for finding and fixing this problem. I'll also be replying to this message with a copy of the patch between 2.6.25.1 and 2.6.25.2 The updated 2.6.25.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git;a=summary thanks, greg k-h -------- Makefile | 2 +- fs/locks.c | 17 +++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Al Viro (1): fix SMP ordering hole in fcntl_setlk() (CVE-2008-1669) Greg Kroah-Hartman (1): Linux 2.6.25.2