Kernel updates for QA

[Ow Mun Heng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Jones [mailto:davej at redhat.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 8:39 AM
> To: Discussion of the Fedora Legacy Project
> Subject: Re: Kernel updates for QA
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 01:26:37AM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > I've put up some packages for QA at
>  > http://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1484
> 
> cpufreq *is* in RHL9 kernel, and is vulnerable.
> Other than that, looks like you've got it covered.
> You may also need the qla2300 perms fix (fixed in SuSE update
> kernels, missed everywhere else). Not sure if that driver
> made it into RHL9, and I don't have an unpacked source tree
> handy. Diff below.

Sorry for being ignorant. But what is the vulneralbility on cpufreq??
I'm on RH9 on a 2.6.3 kernel.

The diff below, I only see references to vmware for the qla2300.
(This is a scsi driver right? based that on the file pathname)


> 
> 		Dave
> 
> --- linux-2.4.21/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx-60500/qla2x00.c.secfix	
> 2004-02-10 09:28:33.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.4.21/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx-60500/qla2x00.c	
> 2004-04-23 13:14:07.000000000 +0200
> @@ -17298,10 +17298,10 @@
>  #ifndef __VMWARE__
>             // XXX: Fix this when proc_mknod works again on main!!!
>  #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,5,0)
> -	proc_mknod(APIDEV_NODE, 0777+S_IFCHR, host->hostt->proc_dir,
> +	proc_mknod(APIDEV_NODE, 0600+S_IFCHR, host->hostt->proc_dir,
>  			(kdev_t)MKDEV(apidev_major, 0));
>  #else
> -	proc_mknod(APIDEV_NODE, 0777+S_IFCHR, host->hostt->proc_dir,
> +	proc_mknod(APIDEV_NODE, 0600+S_IFCHR, host->hostt->proc_dir,
>  			(kdev_t)mk_kdev(apidev_major, 0));
>  #endif
>  #endif //__VMWARE__
> --- linux-2.4.21/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx-60650/qla2x00.c.secfix	
> 2004-02-10 09:28:33.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.4.21/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx-60650/qla2x00.c	
> 2004-04-23 13:14:07.000000000 +0200
> @@ -18757,10 +18757,10 @@
>  #ifndef __VMWARE__
>             // XXX: Fix this when proc_mknod works again on main!!!
>  #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,5,0)
> -	proc_mknod(APIDEV_NODE, 0777+S_IFCHR, host->hostt->proc_dir,
> +	proc_mknod(APIDEV_NODE, 0600+S_IFCHR, host->hostt->proc_dir,
>  			(kdev_t)MKDEV(apidev_major, 0));
>  #else
> -	proc_mknod(APIDEV_NODE, 0777+S_IFCHR, host->hostt->proc_dir,
> +	proc_mknod(APIDEV_NODE, 0600+S_IFCHR, host->hostt->proc_dir,
>  			(kdev_t)mk_kdev(apidev_major, 0));
>  #endif
>  #endif //__VMWARE__
> --- linux-2.4.21/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla2x00.c.secfix	
> 2004-02-10 09:29:30.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.4.21/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla2x00.c	
> 2004-04-23 11:22:59.000000000 +0200
> @@ -18720,10 +18720,10 @@
>  #ifndef __VMWARE__
>             // XXX: Fix this when proc_mknod works again on main!!!
>  #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,5,0)
> -	proc_mknod(APIDEV_NODE, 0777+S_IFCHR, host->hostt->proc_dir,
> +	proc_mknod(APIDEV_NODE, 0600+S_IFCHR, host->hostt->proc_dir,
>  			(kdev_t)MKDEV(apidev_major, 0));
>  #else
> -	proc_mknod(APIDEV_NODE, 0777+S_IFCHR, host->hostt->proc_dir,
> +	proc_mknod(APIDEV_NODE, 0600+S_IFCHR, host->hostt->proc_dir,
>  			(kdev_t)mk_kdev(apidev_major, 0));
>  #endif
>  #endif //__VMWARE__
> 
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